[m-rev.] [dotnet-foreign] diff: distinguish between mercury and foreign imports

[Tyson Dowd]

Mercury imports need to have class constructors called, whereas imported
types
(such as foreign_types) don't.  In general it will be useful to distinguish
the
two different sorts of imports because Mercury imports might imply some sort
of
special processing.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fergus Henderson" <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU>
To: <mercury-reviews at cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: [m-rev.] [dotnet-foreign] diff: distinguish between mercury and
foreign imports


> On 04-May-2001, Peter Ross <petdr at miscrit.be> wrote:
> > Branches: dotnet-foreign
> >
> > Add information to MLDS imports which indicates whether the import of
> > some code originally written in mercury.
>
> Why is that information needed?
>
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