[mercury-users] "What do you think about Mercury ?"

[Tyson Dowd]

On 17-Aug-1999, Issarlk <issarlk at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > - What weaknesses/drawbacks do you find in Mercury ?
> I wish mercury was lazy instead of being strict. (note : I don't know if
> this makes sense for a logic + functional programming language).

You might want to look in the extras distribution for the "lazy"
code.  This is an abstract data type for doing lazy evaluation.
It doesn't make Mercury lazy, but allows you to be explicitly
lazy in Mercury.

Tyson.
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