[mercury-users] multiple main predicates

[Simon Taylor]

On 11-Jul-2002, Michael Day <mikeday at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> A module foo includes sub modules bar and meep, each of which are intended
> to be separate programs and hence contain their own main predicates. foo
> itself does not contain a main predicate.
> 
> This used to compile on 2002-05-12 although it generated errors about 
> duplicate main predicates which went away if the build was repeated. 
> However on 2002-07-09 the errors don't go away.

That was a bug, but I'm not sure what changed to fix the problem.

> Is this really an error? It's handy to have sub modules be programs
> sometimes.

Which `main/2' are expecting will be called?

Simon.
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