[m-rev.] diff:

[Fergus Henderson]

On 16-May-2003, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> compiler/mlds.m:
> 	Allow array/1 to be a foreign type by testing for its name *after*
> 	testing for foreign types.

That change is not OK.  The array type needs to be treated specially, even
if it happens to be defined as a foreign type.

In particular, we want e.g. "array(int)" to get mapped to "int[]"
in the IL and Java back-ends.

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