Re: 0-arity compound terms (was: Ann: SWI-Prolog 7.1.0)
Alan Baljeu <[email protected]>
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>I always used to think of atoms as special cases of compound terms:
>0-arity ones.
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>What is the *motivation* for making a distinction here (did I miss it)?
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>Kilian
a) Functional syntax for the new map thingy.
It's not clear to me the use-case motiviating this.
b) More conventional looking "domain specific languages".
I don't think this is remotely possible, so why even bother:
int f() { return 3; }