/*
* richard-atp-engine: A saturation-based automated theorem prover for first-order logic.
* Copyright (C) 2026 Richard Qin
*
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#pragma once
/// @file substitution.h
/// @brief Variable binding map: Var -> Term.
#include "atp/core/types.h"
#include
namespace atp {
/// A substitution is a mapping from variable TermIds to their bound TermIds.
/// Designed as a short-lived, stack-allocated object during unification.
class Substitution {
public:
Substitution() = default;
/// Bind a variable to a term. Returns false if already bound to something different.
bool bind(TermId var, TermId term);
/// Look up what a variable is bound to. Returns kInvalidId if unbound.
[[nodiscard]] TermId lookup(TermId var) const;
/// Walk the binding chain to the final bound value.
[[nodiscard]] TermId resolve(TermId id) const;
/// Clear all bindings.
void clear();
private:
// TODO: Phase 2 implementation
std::vector> bindings_;
};
} // namespace atp