[m-rev.] for review: arrays and the debugger

[Fergus Henderson]

On 19-Jun-2001, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Are you arguing against the addition of a limited_deconstruct predicate to
> std_util or not?

Yes.

> If yes, what is your argument?

I've explained them at length already, but to summarize, I don't
think the efficiency benefits are worth complicating the interface and
implementation by adding this procedure.

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