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

Tomas By T.By at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Tue Jul 24 17:10:41 AEST 2001


Richard A. O'Keefe writes:
> 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.

but the advantage still applies. ie you cannot curry away the thing in
the middle

/Tomas
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