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Re: term comparisons with variables

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From: Olivier Ridoux
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 11:08
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From article <271@ininx.UUCP>, by jkreznar@ininx.UUCP (John E. Kreznar):
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> I still have the question: What's a good way to represent sets of equivalence
> classes of terms, where two terms are equivalent if they are variants.
> 

Use LambdaProlog.  It handles alpha-conversion properly and has many
more goodies.  In any case, try to never represent variables as
logical variables.  Logical variables stand for arbitraly terms.

Olivier Ridoux
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Subject: Re: term comparisons with variables
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