[mercury-users] What is meant by "non-variable type" ?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 09-Jul-2001, Terrence Brannon <tmbranno at oracle.com> wrote:
> in "Semantics of type quantifiers" it is stated:
> 
>  A non-variable type is considered more general than an existentially
>  quantified type variable.
> 
> I was wondering what a "non-variable type" is... this terminology
> confuses me and I don't believe it was introduced or defined prior to
> this point in the manual.

It just means a type that is not a type variable.
For example, "int".

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