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Article #3746Re: Stupid Question about UNH Prolog
From: Jack J. Woehr
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1988 05:38
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1988 05:38
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In article <606@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <7505@well.UUCP> jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) reports that
>>foo(1). foo(2). foo(3). foobar(X,Y) :- foo(X), !, foo(Y).
>yields the answers (X,Y) = (3,3), (3,1), (3,2), (3,3), but that
>>goobar(X,Y) :- goo(X), !, goo(Y). goo(1). goo(2). goo(3).
>yields the answers (X,Y) = (1,1), (1,2), (1,3) and asks
>> Is UNH Prolog broken or am I?
>
>You should get the same answers from both. However, the "foo" version
>looks suspiciously as though there is an additional clause foo(3) at
>the front. Are you sure you tried this in an empty Prolog system?
>If starting a fresh copy of Prolog, entering those clauses, and verifying
>with the aid of listing/1 that those are the _only_ clauses for foo/1 and
>foobaz/2 produces the result claimed, there is indeed a mistake.
Richard, that was indeed the problem, and you would think that after
all these years of crashing the system right down to the EEROM system configs
using FORTH I would have spotted it. UNH was right and jax was wrong.
So now i hear from one of the many kind correspondents who
responded to my plight that there exists such a thing as the DEC-10
Prolog Library. What form is this thing in? Is it a book, a 9-track,
an 8" hard-sectored floppy, a mound of Holleriths?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!well!jax From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: Stupid Question about UNH Prolog Keywords: UNH,cut,tarsiers Message-ID: <7523@well.UUCP> Date: 2 Nov 88 05:38:12 GMT References: <7505@well.UUCP> <606@quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 30