[m-rev.] diff: rename extras/moose/mercury.m

Thomas Conway conway at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Fri Nov 23 10:27:32 AEDT 2001


On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:06:47PM EST, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> Estimated hours taken: 0.25
> Branches: main
> 
> extras/moose/mercury.m:
> extras/moose/mercury_syntax.m:
> extras/moose/moose.m:
> 	Rename the file `mercury.m' as `mercury_syntax.m', since using the
> 	module name `mercury' doesn't work with the `--high-level-code'
> 	back-end (the generated header file conflicts with runtime/mercury.h).
> 	The module name `mercury' is effectively reserved.

I don't like this *at all*! Currently we mangle names of other symbols
to avoid clashes. Wouldn't be a better fix to mangle module names in
some way?

Thomas
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