Extracting a Primitive Unit from a Signed Unit

The procedure unit/sig->unit extracts and returns the primitive unit from a signed unit.

The names exported by the primitive unit correspond to the flattened export signature of the signed unit; see section 7.3.1.1 for the flattening algorithm.

The number of import variables for the primitive unit matches the total number of variables in the flattened forms of the signed unit's import signatures. The order of import variables is as follows:

• All of the variables for a single import signature are grouped together, and the relative order of these groups follows the order of the import signatures.
• Within an import signature:
  • variable names are ordered according to string<?;
  • all names from sub-signatures follow the variable names;
  • names from a signle sub-signature are grouped together and ordered within the sub-signature group following this algorithm recursively; and
  • the sub-signatures are ordered among themselves using string<? on the sub-signature names.