[m-rev.] for review: add lang spec to pragma import

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Fri Nov 23 04:27:19 AEDT 2001


On 22-Nov-2001, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> Fergus wrote:
> > For the IL and Java backends, the argument types should be determined
> > from the Mercury type declaration.  You shouldn't need to give the types
> > again in the `pragma import' declaration.
>
> :- pred load(object::in, object::out) is det.
> 
> has two possible interpretations in C#
> 
> void load(ref object);
> 
> and
> 
> void load(object, out object);

How is that different to the C interface?

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