[m-dev.] multi-language definitions

[Peter Schachte]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:02:28PM +1100, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:
> Is that a distinction that is important in practice? Surely we should
> encourage people to provide definitions of their predicates that will work
> for all back ends (even if on some back ends, they only call "sorry"),
> which means that all predicates that have no Mercury clauses *should*
> have multiple foreign_procs.

Doesn't that mean that existing, working Mercury code will stop
compiling when a new compiler is released that has new back ends?
That doesn't seem desirable.

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