[mercury-users] Hi, and determinism

[Peter Ross]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:25:49PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> I think it might be a good idea for us to allow `==' as a synonym for `=',
> and add an option to the compiler which warns about all semidet unifications
> which are not written using `=='.  If that works well in practice, we could
> make that behaviour the default.
> 
I agree whole-heartedly. This is the most common bug for me when
writing semidet code, and it always takes me a while to find it.

Pete
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