[m-rev.] diff: document list constructor change in Prolog transition guide

Simon Taylor stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Sat Oct 6 13:33:25 AEST 2001


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doc/transition_guide.texi:
	Note that the list constructor is now different to that in Prolog.

Index: transition_guide.texi
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/doc/transition_guide.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -u -r1.37 transition_guide.texi
--- transition_guide.texi	3 Oct 2001 11:37:56 -0000	1.37
+++ transition_guide.texi	6 Oct 2001 03:31:18 -0000
@@ -200,6 +200,8 @@
 all Vars Goal
 @end example
 
+The constructor for lists in Mercury is @samp{[|]/2}, not @samp{./2}.
+
 Terms with functor '@{@}/@var{N}' are treated slightly differently in Mercury
 than in ISO Prolog. ISO Prolog specifies that ``@{1, 2, 3@}'' is parsed as
 @code{'@{@}'(','(1, ','(2, 3)))}. In Mercury, it is parsed as
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