Re: Remarks on SWI 7

Alan Baljeu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi
Message-ID <[email protected]>

>> the empty list (ALONE amongst the vast range of atoms used to

>> terminate recursive structures)
>>
>
>I foresee a future in which young SWI-Prolog programmers use [] everywhere
>as *the terminator*, or *the empty thing*, or *not a value*. Like,
>
>    bin_tree(a, bin_tree(b, [], []), bin_tree(c, [], [])).
>...
>I find it difficult to explain why this is not a valid approach.


Perhaps because it is a valid approach?
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