[mercury-users] Circular lists

[Fergus Henderson]

On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 11:48:01AM +1100, Peter Schachte wrote:
> would it be possible for Mercury to declare non-di arguments passed to C
> code `const' in the code it generates?

Yes, it would be possible, and what's more it would be a very good idea.

This would only apply to non-atomic types such as strings
and user-defined types.  Atomic types such as int and float are always
copied, so there is no danger of the C interface violating uniqueness
for such types.

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