[mercury-users] Mode specific clauses; (f(free)>>f(ground)) vs. (g(free)>>g(ground))

[Mark Brown]

On 31-Jan-2007, Jrg Roman Rudnick <joerg.rudnick at t-online.de> wrote:
> Dear experienced ones,
> 
> in aim to provide a handy "one arg per config" interface to Tk 
> configuration for the mercury_tk interface, I have a question:
> 
> First, here is some surrounding code:
> 
> :-type data --->
>    forename(string);
>    surname(string);
>    ...
> :-inst forenameG ---> forename(ground).
> :-inst surnameG ---> surname(ground).
> :-inst forenameF ---> forename(free).
> :-inst surnameF ---> surname(free).

>From the reference manual: "The current implementation does not handle
partially instantiated data structures yet." Unfortunately, you'll have
to find a way to do this using ground data for the time being.

(Incidentally, the compiler really should report something when it sees
insts that it can't handle.)

Cheers,
Mark.

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