Hi.

I have encountered some intresting behaviour of
poplog-Prolog, while (trying to) port over a
Sicstus system.

An example is probally best. Start a normal poplog-prolog
session.
$prolog

And add some facts..

?- [user].
| dummy(x-2).
| dummy(x-1).
| dummy(x-(0)).
| dummy(0-x).
| dummy(x-0).

;;; PROLOG SYNTAX ERROR - OPERATOR, ',', OR ')' EXPECTED
;;; FOUND  : 0
;;; READING: o ( x <<HERE>> 0

It seems that somthing-0 has a special significance?
Am i missing somthing obvious here?

Yours,

Bill J Ellis

[To reply replace "Aaron.Sloman.XX" with "A.Sloman"]

The following query did not reach the Birmingham news server for some
reason, though I noticed it on google groups.

I have managed to duplicate this error. I have no explanation
for it.

    dummy(x+0).

causes no problem. Also

    silly(-0).

is fine.

    dummy(x-0.33).

is OK. but

    dummy(x-0.0).

produces

 ;;; PROLOG SYNTAX ERROR - OPERATOR, ',', OR ')' EXPECTED
 ;;; FOUND  : 0.0
 ;;; READING: dum ( x <<HERE>> 0.0
 ;;; FILE   : /home/axs/fetched/fpfp.pl     LINE NUMBER: 7

 ;;; [execution aborted]

whereas

    dummy(x - 0).
    dummy(x - 0.0).

are fine. It looks as if the prolog itemiser is treating "-0" and "-0.0"
as if they used unary minus, but not "-1".

Why?

Aaron

Does anyone understand why this happens, before I start investigating
the source code for Poplog prolog?

Aaron
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School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

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