[mercury-users] Paper on Mercury from AI practitioner's standpoint

[Peter Hawkins]

Hi...
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:26 am, Gregory D. Weber wrote:
> I invite comments to help ensure that I do not misrepresent
> the language to potential users.  A draft is posted at
> http://mypage.iu.edu/~gdweber/papers/drafts/mercury.pdf.

One comment -- I should point out that you can avoid most of the effort in 
threading the IO state around for debugging purposes by using unsafe IO 
predicates. Although this is evil and wrong [tm], it's the a humane solution 
for the programmer. You can live without purity when debugging...

=)
Peter
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