[m-dev.] Re: for review: deep copy cleanup.

[Tyson Dowd]

On 03-Jun-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 02-Jun-1998, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > runtime/mercury_type_info.c:
> > runtime/mercury_type_info.h:
> > 	Define MR_categorize_data and the enum MR_DataRepresentation.
> > 
> > 	MR_categorize_data can be used by any function that needs to
> > 	manipulate data.
> 
> Hmm, the code for MR_table_type() in runtime/mercury_table_any.c
> and ML_expand() in library/std_util.m are both similar to
> the code for deep_copy().  Would it be useful to modify those to use
> MR_categorize_data() too?

Yep, I think so.  This was my intention (and I want to write a new
application).  I just wanted feedback from deep_copy first.

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