[m-rev.] Re: for review: default modes for higher-order func insts

David Overton dmo at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Wed Nov 21 16:38:19 AEDT 2001


On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:55:35PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 10-Oct-2001, David Overton <dmo at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:44:37PM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > > On 03-Aug-2001, David Overton <dmo at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > > Implement a change to the mode system suggested by Ralph Becket to make
> > > > use of higher order functions a bit easier.
> > > 
> > > There should really be some documentation of this in the Mercury language
> > > reference manual.
> > 
> > Documentation is still to come.  I would like to get this committed
> > though, so that people like Ralph and Michael who have been asking for
> > it can try it out.
> 
> The practice of committing changes without documentation should be banned,
> IMHO.  The danger of adequate documentation never arriving is just too high.

Ummm, yes.  You requested this at the time of this review so I wrote the
documentation and committed it as part of this change.

See

http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/mailing-lists/mercury-reviews/mercury-reviews.0110/0030.html


David
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