[m-dev.] for review: removing the general index predicate

Tyson Dowd trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Tue Apr 11 14:12:41 AEST 2000


On 10-Apr-2000, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> For anyone to review.
> 
> Estimated hours taken: 4
> 
> Remove the need for and the definition of the general index predicate.
> Instead, always call the type-specific index predicate from the type-specific
> compare predicate.
> 
> The declaration of the general index predicate, and the declarations and
> implementations of the index predicates on builtin types such as ints
> will be deleted once the changes to the compiler have been bootstrapped
> on all platforms.

Apart from the suggestion Fergus had (which I agree with) this change is
fine.

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