[m-rev.] for review: reserve builtin inst and mode names
Julien Fischer
jfischer at opturion.com
Mon Aug 24 16:33:40 AEST 2015
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:
>>> Any opinions? And any opinions about doing the same for type definitions?
>>> E.g. should a user module be able to define ":- type int ---> ..."?
>>
>> Builtin types: yes.
>
> Yes to which sentence? Yes, do the same for type defns, or yes,
> users *should* be able to define :- type int ---> ...?
Sorry, I meant do the same for type defns (in fact, there's already an
XXX comment to that effect in library/builtin.m), users should *not* be
able to define :- type int ---> ..., etc.
>> Standard library types: definitely not (just in case you were thinking
>> of that too!)
>
> From this, it seems you mean the former. Can you confirm that?
Yes.
Julien.
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