[m-rev.] For review: Convert Mercury terms to XML

[Ralph Becket]

Ian MacLarty, Monday,  6 December 2004:
> Why don't grades that don't support memoing just ignore the pragma?  I 
> put memoing on this predicate because it's going to be called often 
> with the same input.  The memo table should have at most (2 * the 
> number of functors for the type) entries so I wouldn't imagine it would 
> get too big.

Okay, that doesn't sound so bad to me.

> Also the user can't really add a wrapper memoed predicate as 
> get_element/2 is called from predicates that do IO.

You could plumb a flag argument through... but I wouldn't bother.

-- Ralph
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