[mercury-users] Semantics of 'new'

[David Overton]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:15:49AM +0800, Douglas Auclair wrote:
> Hello, all,
> 
> In reviewing existential quantification, I can across the following code 
> snippet:
> 
> :- type univ ---> some [T] mkuniv(T).

This is an existentially quantified data type which is quite different
from an existentially quantified goal.  See the Chapter on "Existential
Types" in the Mercury reference manual.

> univ(X) = 'new mkuniv'(X).
> 
> I didn't see an explanation of 'new' in the neither the Language reference 
> nor in the Library reference.

See the section on "Existentially typed data types".



David
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