[m-dev.] for review: add mdb support for interactive queries

[Peter Schachte]

On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 10:50:57AM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> Add support for invoking interactive queries to mdb.

Brilliant!

> Index: doc/user_guide.texi
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> RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/doc/user_guide.texi,v

> +if your using a system for which dynamic linking is not supported,

s/your/you are/ (or at least "you're")

Also, the documentation doesn't discuss this, and I confess I haven't
looked at the code, but I assume that you can't interactively call a
predicate/function which is not exported from its module.  Is that
right?  If so, I think that should be explicitly mentioned here,
because Prolog programmers will expect it and waste time trying to
figure out how to do it.

Also, for white box testing it would be very useful to be able to
somehow call non-exported predicates.  (Assuming it's not possible
now) I think it should be a wish-list item for the debugger to support
that.


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