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

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Michael Day wrote:

>
> > I've discussed this with Zoltan before and such a change is going to
> > be a sizable (if rather dull) undertaking.  At the time I think we agreed
> > that it's probably best done after the current parser is replaced (with an
> > elk based one).
>
> 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.
>
Is this happening with a recent version of the compiler?

Julien.
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