[mercury-users] Why is --infer-all not the deafult?

[David Overton]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:16:10AM +1000, Peter Schachte wrote:
> One factor that may lead to this difference of opinion is the
> abstraction level of the types you are using (or contemplating).  If I
> declare an argument to be a list of ints, for example, that gives very
> little insight into what information they carry.  If it's declared to
> be a set (represented as a sorted list) of timestamps, that gives much
> more information.

Yes, that's part of what I meant by "using the type system effectively".


David
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