[m-dev.] EDCG inferrence

[Fergus Henderson]

On 11-Feb-2000, Peter Nicholas MALKIN <pnmalk at students.cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> I am currently implementing EDCG inference and there is one thing I would like
> to clarify. It concerns the method of inference using fixed points.
> 
> There are two main ways in which I could do it:
> 
> (i) Not use any user declarations and infer everything and then compare it
> against what was declared.
> 
> (ii) Begin from the user declarations and give an error if the declarations are
> not strict enough (i.e. declared passed when changed).

I suggest using approach (ii), for consistency with what we currently
do for type, mode and determinism inference.

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