Re: sub_atom fails?

David Logan <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Jul 2017 10:19:39 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.prolog.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Apologies for such a basic question, but what exactly is the definition of an ‘atom’? What is it that I am creating that gprolog does not want to clean up?

Thank you,
David Logan


> On Jul 4, 2017, at 9:54 AM, Daniel Diaz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> gprolog does not have an atom garbage collector. So it is important to control the number of created atoms. 
> If this becomes an issue it is better to switch to strings (which are handled as Prolog list of char codes and thus are recovered at backtracking).
> 
> Daniel
> 
>> Le 3 juil. 2017 à 07:44, David Logan <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>> 
>> Well, it doesn’t seem to be sub_atom as far as it goes. I wrote my own left() in order to do the same job, and the new code still fails with atom table full. At this point, I could use some direction as to why this may be happening. I do not see any nesting situation that would cause this. It appears to me that as I backtrack to the repeat clause, it should remove the atoms that are no longer in use.
>> 
>> David Logan
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 2, 2017, at 3:07 PM, David Logan <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am trying to use sub_atom to get a substring. It fails with “atom table full.” When I remove that single line and instead hard code some value to “NewPrefix”, it works fine (other than not writing the correct words of course.) Is this a bug, or does anyone know why this would be legitimately failing?
>>> 
>>> I am not sure how this will arrive at users inboxes, so let me state that I am trying to attach two files: The test prolog file, and the input file I am using.
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> David Logan
>>> 
>>> 
>>> <test5.pl>
>>> <wordlist.txt>
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