We had a meeting of the Mercury group on Fri March 16, 2001,
from 3:15 to 4:00pm.

Attendees:
	Zoltan Somogyi (zs)
	Tyson Dowd (trd)
	Mark Brown (dougl)
	David Overton (dmo)
	David Jeffery (dgj)
	Adrian Pellas-Rice (apell)
	Simon Taylor (stayl)

Progress reports

	We went around the table, with each person in turn discussing what
	they had been working on recently and/or what they were planning
	to work on.

	Zoltan Somogyi (zs)
		- Working on improvements to deep profiling.

	Tyson Dowd (trd):
		- Cleaning up the .NET backend.

	Mark Brown (dougl)
		- Working on search strategies for the declarative debugger.
	
	David Overton (dmo):
		- Some more work on the new mode checker.

	David Jeffery (dgj)
		- Has been discussing the design of a graphical front-end
		for mdb with an Honours student from Monash University.

	Adrian Pellas-Rice (apell)
		- Basic sequence quantification examples now work,
		but there are still some bugs.

	Simon Taylor (stayl)
		- Fixed the handling of purity in the optimization
		passes and tabling.

Minutes taken by Simon Taylor (stayl@cs.mu.oz.au).