[m-dev.] pedantic quibble...

[Fergus Henderson]

On 18-Dec-1999, Michael Day <mcda at cat.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> So, why do :- import, :- include, :- use and :- end have a superfluous
> '_module' tacked onto the end of them?

In my original design for a module system, it was possible to import
individual entities, rather than whole modules.
So there were also declarations `:- import_pred',
`:- import_func', `:- import_type', etc.

See compiler/notes/module_system.html.

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