[m-dev.] for review: type specialisation

[Fergus Henderson]

On 03-Sep-1998, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> > The role of higher_order.m seems to be a bit more general now.
> > Perhaps higher_order.m should be renamed specialize.m?
> 
> If you want, although the name specialize.m suggests something a bit
> more general than what higher_order.m does, and there will be other
> modules to perform different types of specialization such as constraint
> propagation and partial deduction.

Hmmm, perhaps it's not worth worrying about then.
Just make sure that the documentation at the top of the module
and in compiler/notes/compiler_design.html makes it clear that
it does more than just specialization of higher-order preds.

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