[m-dev.] Re: [mercury-users] Mutual Exclusivity & Exhaustiveness

Ralph Becket rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Fri Jan 4 15:53:02 AEDT 2002


Lars Yencken, Friday,  4 January 2002:
> On 04-Jan-2002, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 
> > No - a disjunction cannot acquire more solutions by removing disjuncts!
> > 
> > Removing any two (or even one) of the above disjuncts may lead to
> > semideterminism or failure, but not nondeterminism.
> 
> Sorry, you're right. We can still use the information to limit the partial
> switch to one solution.

Well, at most one solution.

- Ralph
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