Re: Prefix operators and blanks (was: WG17)

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From: Lee Naish
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1989 01:53

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In article <24703@cup.portal.com> pgl@cup.portal.com (Peter G Ludemann) writes:
>I therefore suggest that the Prolog standard specifically
>disallow using a prefix operator as a functor.

I think it is very important that there is a canonical way to write a
term so it can always be read back in, no matter what the operator
precedences are.  Peter's suggestion seems to break this.

	lee

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Subject: Re: Prefix operators and blanks (was: WG17)
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