[m-dev.] pedantic quibble...

Tyson Dowd trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Thu Dec 23 00:03:33 AEDT 1999


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?

:- import is used by the C interface.  Pedantically, I'm thinking this
might be better as :- import_foreign or something like that.

:- import by itself isn't particularly informative because there are
several different things you might want to import.

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Tyson Dowd   <tyson at tyse.net>   http://tyse.net/
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