[m-rev.] for review: user-defined operator tables

[Simon Taylor]

On 06-Nov-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 06-Nov-2001, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 
> > diff -u NEWS NEWS
> > --- NEWS
> > +++ NEWS
> > @@ -36,6 +36,9 @@
> >    information, see the "Impurity" chapter of the Mercury Language
> >    Reference Manual.
> >  
> > +* We've fixed a bug in the Mercury Language Reference Manual.
> > +  Operator terms have a higher priority than `^'.
> 
> s/higher/lower/ ??

No. If the Mercury documentation is going to be inconsistent with the
usual description of precedence in the non-Prolog world, it should at
least be consistently inconsistent.

> s/a bug/an error/
> (The term "bug" normally means a software error,
> rather than a documentation error.)
> 
> Also you should explain what you mean by "Operator terms".
> Even "priority" is not clear in this context.
> 
> But really I'm not sure this is even worth mentioning in the NEWS file.
> We've fixed several other errors in the reference manual without
> documenting them in the NEWS file.

OK, I'll undo that change.

Simon.
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