[mercury-users] undefined symbol `::/2'.

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Tue Jul 24 11:30:36 AEST 2001


I wrote:
	> Amongst other things, this meant that between(0,N) could be passed
	> around usefully as a closure in Prolog.  While that advantage does
	> not apply to Mercury,
Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
	Why not?
	
Because Mercury doesn't need it.  Mercury has much better ways to
construct higher-order terms than Prolog's "drop the trailing arguments" hack.

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