[m-rev.] for review: remove obsolete library predicates

[Fergus Henderson]

On 31-Dec-2001, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> library/float.m:
> library/math.m:
> 	Remove obsolete predicates whose jobs are now done by functions.
> 	The existence of the predicate versions made uses of the functions
> 	ambiguous, as (e.g.) X = math__sin(Y) could be read both as a function
> 	application and as the creation of a closure.
> 
> 	The removed predicates were marked obsolete in March 1999, so there has
> 	been ample notice.

That change is fine, but it should be accompanied by fixes for all uses of the
obsolete predicates in the Mercury distribution.  There won't be any uses in
the compiler directory, but there are uses in the test suite, I'm pretty sure,
and probably elsewhere, e.g. in the extras.

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