Re: Ann: SWI-Prolog 7.1.0

Nicos Angelopoulos (Univ of York) <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi
Message-ID <20131126152658.0fd60fd4@ampelos>
Dear Jan,

On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:19:36 +0100
Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> I agree with Jeff here.  I dislike functor(42, 42, 0) or 42 =.. [42],
> but `fixing' them in favour of something that is heavily doubted and
> certainly still has to prove its value is IMHO a bridge too far.
> As it is now, especially with Jeff's domain error on functor(a(),_,_),
> they can peacefully coexists.   If you don't like it, simply don't use
> it and nothing breaks.
> 

	as i said in my earlier email to this thread, 


"
Certainly this is not a decision SWI should-have-to/can take on its own, maybe
people that are involved in standarisation have a view on this and can move this forward.
"

	the rest was mostly trying to understand the techinical limitations,
	i appreciate that this is not the right forum and that other people are not obliged to answer technical questions,
        please accept my apologies.  

All the best,

Nicos Angelopoulos
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