[m-dev.] diff: get rid of unnecessary tvars

[Fergus Henderson]

On 22-Jun-1998, David Glen JEFFERY <dgj at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Get rid of unnecessary type variables when creating the auxiliary predicate
> for an instance method. This avoids problems when typecheck.m gets rid of
> unused tvars that it thinks were introduced by type inference.

What kind of problems?  Do you have a regression test?

> compiler/typecheck.m:
>         Undo a previous change which used all the info from
>         typecheck_get_final_info even if we were only checking the types.
>         Call varset__squash to evict unnecessary tvars.

I didn't see any lines in the diff which would correspond to the
first sentence above.

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