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Standard behavior?

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From: gooley
Date: Fri, 09 May 1986 18:44
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Consider the following trivial predicate:

a([]).
a(_).

Given the query :-a([]). , C-Prolog finds one match and UNSW Prolog finds two.
Which is standard behavior?  How do other implementations behave?

Mark Gooley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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