[m-dev.] For review: Add implementation of reference types (global heap)

[Fergus Henderson]

On 09-Jun-1998, Warwick Harvey <wharvey at cs.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> Fergus wrote:
> > OK, you've convinced me ;-)
> 
> So they stay as they were?

Yep.

> I wrote:
> > > MixedCaseIdentifiers like MR_untrail_reason?  ;-)
> 
> Fergus wrote:
> > Yeah, I noticed that.  Please feel free to fix that one too ;-)
> 
> Wouldn't that tick a lot of people off?  Or is the trailing interface not 
> really used by many people (outside of the Mercury repository)?

I think currently the trailing interface is not yet widely used.

But if you change this, you should keep the following around:

	/* for backwards compatibility */
	typedef MR_UntrailReason MR_untrail_reason;

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