[m-dev.] for review: change typeclass_info structure

Tyson Dowd trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Fri Mar 31 16:13:05 AEST 2000


On 31-Mar-2000, David Glen JEFFERY <dgj at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> Make an addition to the type class info structure; add type infos for
> any type variables from the head of the instance declaration which are
> unconstrained, and make the class method call mechanism insert these as
> arguments to method calls.
> 
> Also move the documentation about the type class transformation from
> polymorphism.m to a new file, compiler/notes/type_class_transformation.html.

You don't say what the rationale is for this change.

Is this a new feature, a bug in an old feature, or a clean up of code?
(I'm guessing from the test case it might be a bug in an old feature but
I'm not entirely sure).

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