[m-rev.] remove controversial statement from web page

[Fergus Henderson]

There was recently some (justified) criticism in comp.lang.functional
of a statement on our web page.  See
<http://groups.google.com.au/groups?selm=pan.2003.10.29.22.47.48.839762%40consulting.net.nz>.

So I propose to remove the statement.

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w3/information/include/features.inc:
	Delete the statement "Being a compiled language, Mercury does not
	have any means for altering the program at runtime, although we
	may later provide facilities for adding code to a running program.".

	This statement is no longer correct -- we do provide facilities
	for adding and removing code dynamically, via the interface to
	dlopen() and dlclose().

Workspace: /home/ceres/fjh/mercury
Index: w3/information/include/features.inc
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/information/include/features.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -d -r1.1.1.1 features.inc
--- w3/information/include/features.inc	1 Sep 1998 02:41:09 -0000	1.1.1.1
+++ w3/information/include/features.inc	5 Nov 2003 09:07:14 -0000
@@ -31,10 +31,7 @@
 	Mercury handles dynamic data structures not through Prolog's
 	assert/retract but by providing several abstract data types in
 	the standard Mercury library that manage collections of items
-	with different operations and tradeoffs. Being a compiled
-	language, Mercury does not have any means for altering the
-	program at runtime, although we may later provide facilities
-	for adding code to a running program.
+	with different operations and tradeoffs.
 	<p>
 
 

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