On Fri, 06 May 2011 12:36:09 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> As written, amb is just a brute-force solver using more magic than is >> good for any code, but it's fun to play with. > > This isn't really amb; as you said it's just a brute-force solver with > some weird syntax. The whole point of amb is to enable > non-deterministic programming, such as this: [...] > The amb engine would conceptually execute this function for every > possible combination of a, b, and c,
Which pretty much is the definition of "brute-force solver", no? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
