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PrologFail

(Prolog) fail

The predicate fail always fails, which is used to force backtrackting.

The example below shows the use of fail. If you would remove it, only one father would be shown.

DOMAINS
  name = symbol
  
PREDICATES
  nondeterm father(name,name)
  nondeterm everybody
CLAUSES
  father(leonard,katherine).
  father(carl,jason).
  father(carl,marily).
  everybody:-
    father(X,Y),
    write(X, " is ",Y, "'s father\n"),
    fail.
    
  everybody.
 
GOAL
  everybody.


last edited (October 23, 2006) by bilderbikkel, Number of views: 788, Current Rev: 2 (Diff)

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