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Given two expressions, returns a Just list of matches of subexpressions of the first expressions to variables in the second expression. Returns Nothing when there is no match.

> let zero = val (0::Int)
> let one  = val (1::Int)
> let xx   = var "x" (undefined :: Int)
> let yy   = var "y" (undefined :: Int)
> let e1 -+- e2  =  value "+" ((+)::Int->Int->Int) :$ e1 :$ e2

> (zero -+- one) `match` (xx -+- yy)
Just [(y :: Int,1 :: Int),(x :: Int,0 :: Int)]

> (zero -+- (one -+- two)) `match` (xx -+- yy)
Just [(y :: Int,1 + 2 :: Int),(x :: Int,0 :: Int)]

> (zero -+- (one -+- two)) `match` (xx -+- (yy -+- yy))
Nothing

In short:

          (zero -+- one) `match` (xx -+- yy)           =  Just [(xx,zero), (yy,one)]
(zero -+- (one -+- two)) `match` (xx -+- yy)           =  Just [(xx,zero), (yy,one-+-two)]
(zero -+- (one -+- two)) `match` (xx -+- (yy -+- yy))  =  Nothing

Like match but allowing predefined bindings.

matchWith [(xx,zero)] (zero -+- one) (xx -+- yy)  =  Just [(xx,zero), (yy,one)]
matchWith [(xx,one)]  (zero -+- one) (xx -+- yy)  =  Nothing

Given two Exprs, checks if the first expression is an instance of the second in terms of variables. (cf. encompasses, hasInstanceOf)

> let zero = val (0::Int)
> let one  = val (1::Int)
> let xx   = var "x" (undefined :: Int)
> let yy   = var "y" (undefined :: Int)
> let e1 -+- e2  =  value "+" ((+)::Int->Int->Int) :$ e1 :$ e2

 one `isInstanceOf` one   =  True
  xx `isInstanceOf` xx    =  True
  yy `isInstanceOf` xx    =  True
zero `isInstanceOf` xx    =  True
  xx `isInstanceOf` zero  =  False
 one `isInstanceOf` zero  =  False
  (xx -+- (yy -+- xx)) `isInstanceOf`   (xx -+- yy)  =  True
  (yy -+- (yy -+- xx)) `isInstanceOf`   (xx -+- yy)  =  True
(zero -+- (yy -+- xx)) `isInstanceOf` (zero -+- yy)  =  True
 (one -+- (yy -+- xx)) `isInstanceOf` (zero -+- yy)  =  False

Checks if any of the subexpressions of the first argument Expr is an instance of the second argument Expr.

O(n^2). Checks if an Expr is a subexpression of another.

> (xx -+- yy) `isSubexprOf` (zz -+- (xx -+- yy))
True

> (xx -+- yy) `isSubexprOf` abs' (yy -+- xx)
False

> xx `isSubexprOf` yy
False

Given two Exprs, checks if the first expression encompasses the second expression in terms of variables.

This is equivalent to flipping the arguments of isInstanceOf.

zero `encompasses` xx    =  False
  xx `encompasses` zero  =  True