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Article #2078Re: Fallibility of the sane
From: Bill Imlah
Date: Wed, 01 May 1991 12:07
Date: Wed, 01 May 1991 12:07
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ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <1991Apr26.081315.18922@canon.co.uk>, imlah@canon.co.uk (Bill Imlah) writes:
>> Surely its [sic] an [sic] common mistake. Mostly people coming to
>> grips with Prolog don't play around with terms enough
>> for the distinction to become salient.
>But every argument to any Prolog predicate *is* a term.
>The only way one can fail to "play around with terms" is to
>write only predicates that have no arguments!
enough (adv): as many or as much as necessary
- Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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