[m-rev.] for review: re-organise reference manual w.r.t foreign language / C interface

[Peter Wang]

On 2008-01-29, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>  For review by anyone.
> 
>  Estimated hours taken: 1.5
>  Branches: main
> 
>  Re-organise sections of the reference manual concerning the old C interface
>  and the "new" foreign language interface.

> 
>  Index: reference_manual.texi
>  ===================================================================
>  RCS file: 
>  /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/mercury/doc/reference_manual.texi,v
>  retrieving revision 1.420
>  diff -u -d -r1.420 reference_manual.texi
>  --- reference_manual.texi	29 Jan 2008 02:41:43 -0000	1.420
>  +++ reference_manual.texi	29 Jan 2008 07:40:29 -0000

>  +This chapter documents the foreign language interface.
>  +The current implementation also supports an old C interface for
>  +Mercury, which is documented in @ref{C interface}.
>  +Note that the old C interface is deprecated and will be removed in a
>  +future version.
>  +We recommend that code written using the old interface be rewritten
>  +using the interface described in this chapter.

Maybe "updated" instead of "rewritten"?  Since it's not actually that hard.

Looks fine otherwise.

Peter

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