Re: Probable bug on atomic

Paulo Moura <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.prolog.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2007/02/23, at 21:28, Tushar Parekh wrote:

> goal: atomic([]) returns yes
> indicating that an empty list is an atomic value.

Which is a correct answer. The empty list is an atom, not a list. I  
leave you with a question that might help: how do you terminate a  
linked list in e.g. C or Pascal?

Best regards,

Paulo


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