[m-rev.] for review: --no-inline-builtins

[Fergus Henderson]

On 30-Jan-2003, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 30-Jan-2003, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > You know, I think the declarative debugger really ought to by default
> > assume that everything in the standard library is correct.
> > Having the declarative debugger ask you if 1 + 3 = 4 is not a
> > usability improvement!  (Shades of 1984...)
> > 
> > However, that should be a separate patch.
> 
> I am working on that. The initial version will not check whether the
> procedure involved is higher order or not; that is for later.

Note that procedures with type class constraints also pose similar
problems to higher order procedures.

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