Re: how to make this fail driven loop succesfull ?

"Richard A. O'Keefe" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/03/2014, at 9:38 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote:

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>> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 21:43:03 +0000
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [SWIPL] how to make this fail driven loop succesfull ?
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>> Roelof,
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>> You can make your failure-drive loop finish as 'true' like this:
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>> siblings(Father,Mother) :- is_father(X, Father), is_mother(X, Mother), write(X), nl, fail ; true.
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> I found a better way as stated in the tutorial : 
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> siblings(Father,Mother) :-
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>   is_father(X, Father), 
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>   is_mother(X, Mother), 
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>   write(X), 
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>   nl, 
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>   fail.
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>   siblings(_,_).

It isn't a better way.  It's the *same* way, if you
consider the logic of it.
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