[mercury-users] Solver types and \=

[Peter Schachte]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:48:37AM +1000, Peter Hawkins wrote:
> Suppose A and B are variables of a solver type with an equality defined. 
> Then Mercury appears to transparently convert:
> A \= B
> to:
> not(A = B)
> Perhaps it 
> would be better to leave '\=' undefined for solver types, and leave the 
> user to define a custom inequality predicate if it makes sense?

I guess the transformation above should be limited to cases where A
and B are ground.  I would hope solver implementations would not post
constraints when the arguments *are* ground.  And solver type
declarations should be allowed to include "where disequality is
disequality_pred".

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