[mercury-users] Pred defns

[Fergus Henderson]

On 03-Apr-1998, Ralph Becket <rwab1 at cam.sri.com> wrote:
> If we're going to have this facility at all I strongly feel that it
> should look simple and *elegant*!

Yes, I agree.  In fact, I'd go futher, and ask that it also *be*
simple and elegant.  

Unfortunately it seems that thus far there isn't any proposal
which clearly satisfies both of these pairs of requirements :-(

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