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   Bert Edens was espousing about 'Question about adding',
   on [10-05-92  12:05] to All!
 BE> Greetings...

    YEAH well HI! :)

 BE> I wanted to get some suggestions on the best way to attack a
 BE> problem. I'm writing an adventure-type of game (no, not for a class :-)
 BE> and wanted to know the quickest way to add up their total hit points.
 BE> The fact is stored like:
 BE> monster(orc,4).

    this may not be as difficult as you might imagine.

 BE> where the latter is the number of hit points. What I want to do is add
 BE> up a group of them and get the total hit points for an attack party.
 BE> For example, it might be:
 BE> monster(orc,4). monster(kobold,5). monster(goblin,8).
 BE> and I want to add them up.

    This all depends on how you have it stored, if the monster
    group is a dbasedomain then you can use findall.

    group_hp(Hp_):-findall(Hp,monster_group(_,Hp),Hp_list),
        add_list(Hp_list,0,Hp_).

    add_list([],Total,Total).
    add_list([H|T],Running_total,Result):-
        New_running_total = H + Running_total,
        add_list(T,New_running_total,Result).

                Stephen Cyberman@Toz.Buffalo.NY.US
                Scripted at Thu  10-08-1992  11:01:20

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