FW: [mercury-users] Records

[Fergus Henderson]

On 08-Nov-1999, Peter Schachte <schachte at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 04:00:49PM +1100, Simon Taylor wrote:
> > > > The only complaint I have with using magic function names for which
> > > > definitions can be automatically generated by the compiler is that
> > > > typos can result in difficult to spot bugs where the programmer's
> > > > version is not called.
> > 
> > :- type foo
> > 	---> foo(
> > 		field1::int,
> > 		field2::int
> > 	).
> > :- func 'set feild1'(foo, int) = foo.
> 
> For starters, there's nothing wrong with this code that the compiler
> can find.

What about the following?

	foo.m:006: Error: no clauses for function `foo:set feild1/2'.

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