[m-dev.] delaying compile errors until runtime

[Fergus Henderson]

Programmers who are used to dynamically typed interactive
environments sometimes complain that they want to be able
to run their program even when it is incomplete.

It might be nice to add an option to the Mercury compiler
that would cause it to go ahead and generate executable
code anyway, even if compile errors were found.  The generated
code would then raise exceptions at runtime, if/when it was
executed.

Comments?

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