[m-dev.] Re: Compatibility

[Fergus Henderson]

Tyson Richard DOWD, you wrote:
> 
> [moved into mercury-developers]
> 
> > I'd also like to suggest a couple of changes to be compatible with Prolog. 
> > I'm not arguing for gratuitous compatibility; where Prolog did it wrong,
> > Mercury should do it right.  But I would argue against gratuitous
> > incompatibility.  I know of two small changes that improve compatibility
> > with no loss to Mercury.

I'm in favour of both of those changes.
The order of arguments of arg/3 was an oversight.
The current behaviour of io:write/1 is just because no-one
has got around to implementing it properly yet.

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