[mercury-users] Mercury Modes Problem

[Michael Day]

> Perhaps you consider this to be a "killer" for your application?  I hope
> not.  Personally, I would recommend programming in this style rather
> than use partially instantiated data structures, even though this may
> make your code more verbose and probably less efficient, at least in the
> short term.  I'd do this for essentially the same reason that I'd
> discourage the use of difference lists in languages that support them.

Can you expand on that? Just it seems rather pointless for anyone to
bother implementing partially instantiated data structures if their use
will be discouraged. Might as well have done with partial instantiation
altogether and simplify the mode system...

Michael

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