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RE: General Logic Programming Question
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Vic Bancroft |
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RE: General Logic Programming Question |
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Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:56:25 -0500 (EST) |
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> I suppose that one could connect a Prolog runtime to a database
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> Or do the existing database bindings somehow work around this problem?
You just have to be explicit about the logical behavior of the database
function. Some folks prefer to make the database call a "procedure" that
always succeeds and creates no choice points. Others might like a
non-deterministic database call, particularly for a query, to return
the results via backtracking.
more,
l8r,
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