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roland@sun-2.cs.uct.ac.za (Roland Paterson-Jones) writes:

>While running a prolog program written in SICStus, our SBProlog3.1 whinged
>about the predicate nl/1:

>> process_back_arcs:-
>>     retract(arc(X,Y,back)),
>>     display('processing a new back'), nl(user_output),
>>     ( node(Y,I_Y,_) -> true ),	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>     find_cycles([Y],X,I_Y,[Y]),
>>     process_back_arcs.

>What is this intended to do, and what is the significance of the atom
>'user_output'?

Unless I'm very much mistaken, this is intended to send an end-of-line
character to whatever user_output has been defined as (the console, a
file, etc.), and move to the next line.

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