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- From: smolka@dfki.uni-sb.de (Gert Smolka)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
- Subject: Re: Occurs check
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 16:20:21 +0100
- Organization: DFKI - German Research Center for AI
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- References: <TORKEL.92Dec18231028@lludd.sics.se> <24454@alice.att.com> <TORKEL.92Dec20104928@bast.sics.se> <1992Dec21.153147.26177@cs.brown.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.153147.26177@cs.brown.edu>,
- mj@cs.brown.edu (Mark Johnson) writes:
- |> This is a nice way of viewing things, but I don't know any Prolog that
- |> gives you all of the constraints C. Consider the following program:
- |>
- |> p(a) :- q(X,X).
- |>
- |> q(Y, f(Y)).
- |>
- |> One the query p(X), Sicstus returns the following:
- |>
- |> | ?- p(X).
- |>
- |> X = a ? ;
- |>
- |> no
-
- This is the perfect answer with respect to
- rational trees (there is exactly one X such that X=f(X)).
-
- |> | ?- q(X,X).
- |>
- |> X = f(f(f(f(f(f(f(f(f(f(f(f(f(f ...
-
- Again, the right answer (maybe, some depth limit
- in printing things would be nice).
-
- |> That is, sicstus only returns constraints related to variables appearing
- |> the goal. But the constraints that only have cyclic solutions may be
- |> associated with other variables.
-
- Sure, but this is how it has to be, isn't it?
-
- By the way, a recent paper of Ralf Treinen and myself in the
- Proceedings of JICSLP'92 gives an in-depth study of incremental
- decision methods for satisfiability, entailment and negation for
- rational trees (actually, a proper generalization of Colmerauer's
- rational tree system also accommodating features). The full paper
- describes an abstract machine (WAM-like) providing for an
- efficient incremental implementation of the decision methods.
-
- Both papers can be obtained by anonymous ftp from
- duck.dfki.uni-sb.de (134.96.188.92) from the directory pub/papers.
-
- @inproceedings{CFT-JICLP92,
- editor = "K. Apt",
- author = "Gert Smolka and Ralf Treinen",
- title = "Records for Logic Programming",
- booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1992 Joint International Conference and
- Symposium on Logic Programming",
- year = "1992",
- publisher = "The MIT Press",
- address = "Cambridge, Mass."
- }
-
- @TechReport{ST:cft92rep,
- author = "Gert Smolka and Ralf Treinen",
- title = "Records for Logic Programming",
- institution = "German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)",
- year = 1992,
- type = "Research Report",
- number = "RR-92-23",
- address = {Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 6600 Saarbr\"ucken 11, Germany}
- }
-
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- Tel: +49 681 302-5311; Fax: +49 681 302-5341; Net: smolka@dfki.uni-sb.de
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