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Common courtesy

#82
From: Ken Johnson
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 10:21
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In article <189@syllogi.syllogic.nl> fdb@syllogic.nl (Frank de Bruijn)
writes:

#  I see, are you blind, or just too lazy to read a decent textbook on
#  PROLOG? Even the "not so good books" describe this. 

Is it necessary to talk to your junior colleagues in this tone of voice?


#  ...a meta-interpreter could handle the symmetry, transitivity, etc.  of
#  all relations declared as such.  One implementation technique that can
#  be used in such a meta-interpreter is to examine the goal stack for an
#  earlier call-frame that matches the current call frame.  This works, but
#  it's costly......... 

I hadn't thought of that.  It is a fascinating possibility.  Have you
actually implemented anything this way?

-- Ken Johnson


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From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
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Subject: Common courtesy
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Date: 11 Aug 92 10:21:56 GMT
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