[m-rev.] for review: automatically import sub-modules using include_module

[Fergus Henderson]

On 14-Nov-2001, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> 
> Change the semantics of `:- include_module' so that if an interface
> contains an include_module then when that interface is imported so is
> the one specified by the include_module.  As include_modules are only
> allowed to refer to sub-modules this allows one to automatically import
> a selective part of a sub-module hierachy by just importing one module.

I oppose this, for reasons explained on mercury-developers.

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