[mercury-users] Hi, and determinism

[Peter Schachte]

> 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 `=='.

Of course, what's det or semidet (or even nondet!) is entirely mode-dependent.

> If that works well in practice, we could
> make that behaviour the default.

One of Prolog's flaws is all the different versions of `='.  I hope you don't
make this option the default for Mercury.  

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