Re: Background info abot the unfyication tool

2010-05-22 Thread stefan
Hi, Folks, you asked about using prompts to use delimited continuation aka prompts for the unification stuff. Cool tech. Anyhow. The main use for this thing in a unifying context is to be able to cut a whole tree from further out in the limbs of the tree. The first step taken was to reuse the

Re: Background info abot the unfyication tool

2010-05-22 Thread stefan
--- Begin Message --- Hi, Want to share some more info about what the *** I am trying to do. (Part I) On the unification, unification match and backtracking. first off, unification. Let capitals, X,Y,Z be varible and x,y,z etc symbols. Let [X Y Z | W] denotes lists all in the tradition of

Re: Background info abot the unfyication tool

2010-05-21 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Stefan, Thanks for this writeup, it was very interesting. I don't come from the logic programming world, so it was great to hear your thoughts and see your code. It's clear that you've thought a lot about these problems :) It's very cool that you were able to come in an hack up performant solu

Background info abot the unfyication tool

2010-05-18 Thread stefan
Hi, Want to share some more info about what the *** I am trying to do. (Part I) On the unification, unification match and backtracking. first off, unification. Let capitals, X,Y,Z be varible and x,y,z etc symbols. Let [X Y Z | W] denotes lists all in the tradition of prolog. Let be unifica