diff -r 957808dcb367 -r b51467741af2 main_testing3/re_test.sh
--- a/main_testing3/re_test.sh	Sun May 01 12:41:56 2022 +0100
+++ b/main_testing3/re_test.sh	Thu Aug 04 16:53:38 2022 +0200
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
 # purity test
 
 function scala_vars {
-   (egrep '\bvar\b|\breturn\b|\.par\.|\.par |ListBuffer|AtomicInteger|mutable|util.control|new Array' c$out 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null)
+    (sed 's/immutable/ok/g' c$out > cb$out;
+     egrep '\bvar\b|\breturn\b|\.par\.|\.par |ListBuffer|AtomicInteger|mutable|util.control|new Array' cb$out 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null)
 }
 
 
@@ -60,7 +61,21 @@
     fi
 fi
 
+### make sure datatypes are not tampered with
 
+if [ $tsts -eq 0 ]
+then
+    echo -e "re.scala has case classes for ALTs and SEQs?" >> $out
+
+    if (scala_assert "re.scala" "re_test0.scala")
+    then
+	echo -e "  --> passed" >> $out
+	tsts=$(( 0 ))
+    else	
+	echo -e "  --> FAIL (make sure the case clases are as given in the template)" >> $out 
+	tsts=$(( 1 ))
+    fi
+fi
 
 ### re tests