[m-rev.] for post-commit review: clarify wording in manual

Julien Fischer jfischer at opturion.com
Thu May 20 22:48:28 AEST 2021



On Thu, 20 May 2021, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:

> The reason I looked at this part of the manual was because
> in the course of working on something else, I looked at the
> code adding initialise and finalise preds to the HLDS, and
> I found it strange that this code does NOT insist on
> the symname/arity pair specified in an initialise or finalise
> declaration actually being a predicate; it would happily accept
> a function whose arg list, after the conversion of the function
> to predicate form, matches the compiler's expectations.
>
> The documentation does say that initialise and finalise
> declarations should specify predicates, not functions.
> Would anyone object if I changed the code to enforce this?

No, go ahead.

The diff is fine.

Julien.


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