Re: Abstract Type in Prolog ?

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From: Sergio Antoy
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 1991 00:32

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In article <1991Jan3.154717.27057@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
yfeng@watnow.waterloo.edu (Feng Yang) writes:

>I am wondering if prolog can be used to represent abstract data type. 
>For example: an axiomatic specification of stack is something like:
>
>top(push(i,s)) = i
>isemptystack(createstack) = true
>isemptystack(push(i,s)) = false
>pop(push(i,s)) = s
>
>Can this set of axioms be represented in prolog directly ?

Chapter 5 of Algebraic Specification, (Bergstra, Heering, and Klint
eds.) ACM Press, Addison-Wesley, 1989, gives an overview of several
methods for translating algebraic specifications in Prolog.

Sergio Antoy
Portland State University

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