[mercury-users] Libraries and DCG convenience...

[Fergus Henderson]

On 21-Jun-1999, Luke Evans <Luke.Evans at seagatesoftware.com> wrote:
> There's clearly a convention with predicates (visible in the standard
> libraries) where predicate arguments are presented as:
> <ADT state before> [arguments describing the delta] <ADT state after>
> 
> Whilst this convention looks reasonable, as it seems to describe the 'flow'
> through the predicate, it appears to make it awkward to use DCG clauses to
> apply a sequence of deltas.  Is there a 'really good reason' for it?

I don't think so.

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