[mercury-users] formal description of the HLDS code

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.oz.au
Fri Jul 18 14:19:20 AEST 1997


Erwan Jahier, you wrote:
> 
> Is there a formal description of the HLDS code somewhere?

There's no _formal_ description as such, I guess, but the
representation of goals in the HLDS is basically just as annotated formulas in
[higher-order, polymorphic many-sorted] predicate calculus, and formal
descriptions of predicate calculus are easy to come by.

Cheers,
	Fergus.

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