[m-rev.] for review: parsing and pretty printing of promise ex declarations

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Thu Feb 7 17:22:12 AEDT 2002


On 07-Feb-2002, Lars Yencken <lljy at students.cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> +		% assertions
> +	; 	true.			% promise expression is true

s/expression/goal/

> +++ compiler/notes/glossary.html	7 Feb 2002 02:18:34 -0000
> @@ -15,10 +15,11 @@
>  
>  <dl>
>  
> -<dt> assertion/promise
> +<dt> assertion
>  	<dd>
> -    A declaration that specifies a law that holds for the
> -    predicates/functions in the declaration.
> +	A particular form of promise which claims to the compiler 
> +	that the expression given will always hold. If useful, the 
> +	compiler may use this information to perform optimisations.

s/expression given/specified goal/


Otherwise that looks fine now.

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