[mercury-users] State variables as function arguments.

[Julian Fondren]

Peter Schachte wrote:
> If you can find a convenient way to use predicates instead of functions where
> you want to do I/O, it would work out better for you.  Perhaps you could make
> the second argument to or_die be a predicate rather than a function, and thread
> the IO state through it:

*nod*, I can certainly do with this program with predicates.
I only had them as functions so that I could return the success
of an underlying C call, after trying at first with semidet I/O.

  _ = foo, _ = bar.

is surely some kind of red flag, as well.

Thanks for your explanation!  I really feel better about this,
after the error message's simple 'invalid use' language.

Julian.
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