[m-rev.] for review: atoms in the debugger

[Ralph Becket]

Zoltan Somogyi, Friday,  4 January 2002:
> On 02-Jan-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 
> > Perhaps, but IMHO it would be less confusing than using the term "atom"
> > (which had me completely confused).
> 
> ??? You must have read the term hundreds of times in logic programming papers.
> [...]
> 
> Who else shares Fergus's aversion to "atom"? Who has a suggestion for a
> possible name that is not misleading?

For me the problem arises from too many years of using Prolog's
unfortunately misnamed atom/1 and atomic/1 meta-predicates.

Is the term "call" inappropriate or too overused?

- Ralph
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