Release 0.8 - Contents

• an autoconfiguration script
• the Mercury source for the compiler
• the Mercury source for the standard library
• the automatically generated C source for the compiler and the standard library
• the runtime system (written in C)
• Hans Boehm's conservative garbage collector for C
• a profiler
• a debugger
• some utility programs, including a make front-end for Mercury with automatic dependency recomputation
• the Mercury language reference manual
• the Mercury library reference manual
• the Mercury user's guide
• the Mercury frequently asked questions list
• the Prolog to Mercury transition guide
• some sample Mercury programs
• some extra libraries for
  • processing HTML forms using the CGI interface
  • arithmetic on complex and imaginary numbers
  • graphics using Tk and OpenGL
  • exception handling
  • backtrackable (trailed) destructive update
  • an ODBC database interface
  • a CLP(R) interface, i.e. constraint solving over real numbers
• a test suite