[m-rev.] for review: module qualification of equality preds

[Fergus Henderson]

On 19-May-2003, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Simon Taylor, Monday, 19 May 2003:
> > To avoid this problem we now require user-defined equality or
> > comparison predicates for a type to be defined in the same module
> > as the type. This is the only simple way to module qualify the
> > unification predicates in interface files without running
> > typechecking.
> 
> This restriction should be documented for users.

Actually, it was -- the problem here is that the change to
doc/reference_manual.texi which was included in the diff
was not included in the log message.

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