[m-dev.] diff: remove support for cuts

[Fergus Henderson]

On 28-Mar-2000, Peter Schachte <schachte at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > It would be nice if we had something like Ada's `renames',
> > so that the compiler could detect that the two different occurrences
> > of `!' were both the same, and thus avoid the ambiguity.
> 
> For those of us who don't know Ada, what does `renames' do?

Well, with it you can declare in a module's interface
(in a package's specification, to use Ada terminology)
that a particular constant, procedure, function or
type is just a renaming of some other type.

Because it is part of the interface, overload resolution
can take this information into account.

> Does this let a module export things it imports?

Yes.  Of course, doing that in Mercury as it stands is not particularly
difficult.

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