[m-dev.] [HAL-dev] Adding Herbrand types to Mercury (fwd)

[Fergus Henderson]

Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> :- solver type t
> 	--->	'$'(herbrand_var(t))
> 	;	f
> 	;	g(t)
> 	where equality is unify_t.
> 
> where herbrand_var/1 is a private builtin type that might look like
> this:
> 
> :- type herbrand_var(T)
> 	--->	free
> 	;	bound(T).

With the current Mercury implementation, this would be suboptimal
efficiency-wise, because there are two levels of indirection for each
level of binding, one for '$'/1, and one for bound/1.

Something like this instead

	:- solver type t
		--->	'$free'
		;	'$bound'(t)
		;	f
		;	g(t)
		where equality is unify_t.

could be considerably more efficient.

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