[m-rev.] for review: atoms in the debugger

[Zoltan Somogyi]

On 02-Jan-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Ah, sorry, I realize now that I misunderstood what you were using "atom"
> to refer to -- you're talking about browsing calls at call/exit/redo/fail
> ports.

And all other ports. And browsing I/O action atoms in the declarative debugger
(which is what started me off).

> I still think the use of the word "atom" is misleading,
> but "closure" or "higher-order term" wouldn't have the right meaning.
> Maybe it's best to talk about browsing calls, rather than
> printing atoms.

Browsing a "call" at an exit port and having it show even the output arguments
would be confusing.

Zoltan.
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