[m-rev.] State variable syntax transformation

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Wed Feb 27 16:33:00 AEDT 2002


On 27-Feb-2002, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Fergus Henderson, Wednesday, 27 February 2002:
> > On 27-Feb-2002, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Okay, I've added the "else true" arm to that example.
> > 
> > That addresses my second point, but not my first.
> 
> The example in question is
> 
> iterate_while2(P, F, !A, !B) :-
>         ( if P(!.A, !.B) then 
>                 F(!A, !B),
>                 iterate_while2(P, F, !A, !B)
>           else
>                 true
>         ).

Oh, OK, that's fine.
I was talking about the example with `throw', but I guess that
only occurred in this thread, not in the documentation you're proposing
to add.

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