[m-rev.] for review: ordering the items in interface files

[Ralph Becket]

Michael Day, Monday, 21 March 2005:
> 
> It would be good to replace the parser, as the current one has a habit of
> looping indefinitely (or just taking a very very long time) on moderately
> large input files that contain trivial syntax errors like a missing comma
> or a missing "else". Even more annoyingly, Mercury does not respond to ^C
> in that state, and must be kill -9'd, making it rather frustrating to
> track down exactly where the syntax error is.

I've never seen that problem.  Have you got a test case?
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