Functional syntax (Was: RE: [mercury-users] Hi, and determinism)

[Fergus Henderson]

On 31-Jan-2001, Mattias Waldau <mattias.waldau at abc.se> wrote:
> The beatty of Ocaml is that it can do anything a low-level language like C
> can - and almost as fast - and that you can make pure programs.

Does Ocaml have support for bit fields, or something equivalent?

> Two additional features I really miss in Mercury is a fast compiler and an
> interactive environment.

We have been doing quite a bit of work in those areas recently.
There's a long way to go, but we've been making good progress.

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