[m-dev.] for review: accumulator.m 2

[Peter David ROSS]

On 03-Jul-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 01-Jul-1998, Peter David ROSS <petdr at students.cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> > 	%
> > 	% This type is threaded through the processing of the compose
> > 	% goals.  Its purpose is to help identify whether or not the
> > 	% goals as a whole are assocative.
> ...
> > 	% The Prev Call Map records for the original dynamic var whether
> > 	% previous calls have been commutative or not.
> > 	%
> > :- type rename
> > 	--->	rename(
> > 			list(var),		% Ys
> > 			list(var),		% Y0s
> > 			module_info,
> > 			set(var),		% Static vars.
> > 			set(var),		% Dynamic vars
> > 			multi_map(var, var),	% Original Var map
> > 			map(var, commutative)	% Prev call map
> > 		).
> 
> The meaning of the Prev Call Map is still a bit mysterious.
> Which previous calls do you mean?
> Does it record whether *all* previous calls have been commutative
> or whether just *some* previous calls were commutative?
> 
All previous calls must have been commutative.

> > 	%
> > 	% Package all the types into one structure so that I don't have
> > 	% to individually pass each of these as a seperate argument in
> > 	% some of the predicates where they are threaded through.
> > 	%
> > :- type package
> > 	--->	pack(
> > 			proc_id,
> > 			proc_info,
> > 			pred_id,
> > 			pred_info,
> > 			module_info
> > 		).
> 
> It might be better to call the type and functor `proc_pred_module_info'
> rather than `package' and `pack'.
> 
> 
> ... to be continued.
> 
> > accumulator__setup
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