lexer.m change (was: Re: diff for review and inclusion in the build tonight)

Fergus Henderson fjh at mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU
Sat Oct 11 23:43:12 AEST 1997


Zoltan Somogyi wrote:

> lexer.m:
> 	Change the representation of token lists to be a fat list
> 	instead of a list of pairs, since this reduces memory
> 	consumption, the number of calls to the memory allocator,
> 	and the amount of indirection required to access tokens.

Hmm, lexer.m is part of the Mercury standard library,
and this is an interface change...

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