Discussion of these changes can be found on the Mercury developers
mailing list archives from June 2018.
COPYING.LIB:
Add a special linking exception to the LGPL.
*:
Update references to COPYING.LIB.
Clean up some minor errors that have accumulated in copyright
messages.
library/assoc_list.m:
library/bag.m:
library/bimap.m:
library/calendar.m:
library/char.m:
library/digraph.m:
library/list.m:
library/map.m:
library/multi_map.m:
library/psqueue.m:
library/rbtree.m:
library/string.m:
library/term.m:
library/tree234.m:
library/type_desc.m:
library/univ.m:
library/varset.m:
Replace most occurrences of "abort" with "throw an exception".
Slightly improve the documentation for map.search, map.lookup,
map.inverse_search.
library/deconstruct.m:
Replace "abort" with "runtime abort" where that is meant.
library/backjump.m:
library/exception.m:
library/getopt_io.m:
library/psqueue.m:
library/set_ctree234.m:
library/set_tree234.m:
library/tree234.m:
Avoid using implicit streams.
library/io.m:
Add a version of the write_cc predicate that allows callers
to specify an explicit stream.
Fix what seems like an old bug in read_binary_file_as_bitmap: it was not
reading from the file at all.
Use explicit module qualification in some places to make the code more
readable.
library/table_statistics.m:
Add a version of the write_table_stats predicate that allows callers
to specify an explicit stream.
Avoid using implicit streams inside the module as well.
library/term_io.m:
Add versions of the predicates that read terms that allow callers
to specify an explicit stream.
Avoid using implicit streams inside the module as well.
library/parser.m:
Add module qualifications that are needed after the new addition of new
predicates to term_io.m.
library/stream.m:
library/stream.string_writer.m:
Fix style.
library/psqueue.m:
Fix a bug: the adjust predicate was documented to fail if asked to adjust
the priority of a nonexistent key, but it succeeded anyway.
Fix a bug: the function that computed the size of a psqueue did not count
the priority/key pair in the winner structure.
Make the at_most predicate significantly more efficient, by eliminating
an expensive conversion to the min view. Most of the contents of the min
view was not needed. In Haskell (the language used in the paper that
this module is derived from), computing stuff that won't be looked at
is cheap due to lazyness; in Mercury, it can be expensive.
Make the at_most predicate significantly more efficient in another respect
as well, by using cords to avoid re-re-re-appending the same elements.
Make most other predicates more efficient by eliminating the redundant
checking for empty queues. For example, when you convert a nonempty queue
to the tournament view, you shouldn't need to check whether the result
is a tournament with no players; it will not be. This change required
two main changes in data structures. The first is to separate out
the concepts of psqueues that may be empty from those which may not.
The second is updating the tournament view to eliminate the possibility
of no players, and handling empty psqueues *without* converting them
to the tournament view.
Document the meanings of the module's data structures, both original
and updated, including their invariants (at least, the invariants
I can see).
Delete the type for min views, since after the performance fix to at_most,
it is no longer needed.
Delete the type for tree views, since it is isomorphic to the actual
data structure, and conversions to it just waste time.
Delete the t_ prefix from the names of types.
Change the documentation of predicates to use full sentences, not just
sentence fragments.
Do not include the predicates intended only for unit tests in the
publicly documented part of the interface.
Use the P, K order of type variables CONSISTENTLY. Change the order
of fields representing priority/key pairs in structures likewise.
Use consistent naming schemes for variables: PSQx for psqueues, LTreex
for ltrees, etc. Use xPrime instead of x0 for variables bound in the
conditions of if-then-elses. Use Maybe as a prefix on the names of
variables of maybe types.
Avoid the use of generic variable names such as "Res"; use names that
reflect the value being returned instead.
Avoid the use of numeric suffixes on variables when these do NOT denote
progression over time; use A and B, or L and R, suffixes instead.
Give some function symbols and predicates more meaningful names.
Internal operations do not need to be available as both functions
and predicates; pick whichever seems more appropriate, and remove
the other. Remove some other unused functions, such as construct_leaf.
Factor out some common code, e.g. for updating minimums and maximums.
Remove redundant "is det" declarations from functions.
Fix the type specializations. Specializing a predicate is useless
unless its caller either always calls it with values of the specialized
type, or is itself specialized the same way. This module needs the latter,
so add type specializations to all predicates between the exported
predicates and the primitives that can directly benefit from the
specializations.
tests/hard_coded/psqueue_test.{m,exp}:
Make this test case significantly harder. The old version did not
pick up the two bugs referred to above, but the new version does.
library/psqueue.m:
Make the psqueue interface more consistent with other standard library
modules.
tests/hard_coded/psqueue_test.exp:
tests/hard_coded/psqueue_test.m:
Update tests.
library/psqueue.m:
Update coding style.
In min_view/1 there's two variable names are incorrect (they should be
swapped) this doesn't change the program but may confuse people reading
the code.
tests/hard_coded/psqueue_test.exp:
tests/hard_coded/psqueue_test.m:
Also improve the coding style in the test code.
Add lables to all of the test outputs.
This implements a priority search queue ADT. This is a kind of blend
between priority queues and search trees; in contrast to a priority
queue, it also allows changing priorities of keys, looking up keys and
deleting keys.
This is an implementation based on the ICFP 2001 paper "A Simple
Implementation Technique for Priority Search Queues" by Ralf Hinze.
http://www.mercurylang.org/list-archives/users/2014-October/007804.html
Commit message paraphrased from Matthias' e-mail.
http://www.mercurylang.org/list-archives/reviews/2014-October/017414.html
library/psqueue.m:
Add new module.
library/MODULES_DOC:
library/library.m:
Include new module.
tests/hard_coded/Mmakefile:
tests/hard_coded/psqueue_test.exp:
tests/hard_coded/psqueue_test.m:
Add test for psqueue.m
