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.
Branches: main
Change the argument order of many of the predicates in the map, bimap, and
multi_map modules so they are more conducive to the use of state variable
notation, i.e. make the order the same as in the sv* modules.
Prepare for the deprecation of the sv{bimap,map,multi_map} modules by
removing their use throughout the system.
library/bimap.m:
library/map.m:
library/multi_map.m:
As above.
NEWS:
Announce the change.
Separate out the "highlights" from the "detailed listing" for
the post-11.01 NEWS.
Reorganise the announcement of the Unicode support.
benchmarks/*/*.m:
browser/*.m:
compiler/*.m:
deep_profiler/*.m:
extras/*/*.m:
mdbcomp/*.m:
profiler/*.m:
tests/*/*.m:
ssdb/*.m:
samples/*/*.m
slice/*.m:
Conform to the above change.
Remove any dependencies on the sv{bimap,map,multi_map} modules.
Estimated hours taken: 0.1
Branches: main, release
extras/xml/*.m:
Remove some non-abstract instance declarations from module
interfaces; the compiler no longer supports them.
Replace uses of ':' as a module qualifier.
Remove duplicate module imports.
Estimated hours taken: 100
Add an XML parser to the extras directory
extras/xml/README:
A short readme describing the parser.
extras/xml/Mmake:
The Mmake file for the sample program.
extras/xml/tryit.m:
A sample program that just parses the files named on the command line.
extras/xml/xml*.m:
The parser itself.
extras/xml/unicode.m:
A bunch of functions that return the unicode values for numerous ascii
symbols.
extras/xml/parsing.m:
The parsing combinator set used by the xml parser.
