Facilities of Mercury

[Fergus Henderson]

Serap Yilmaz, you wrote:
> 
> Regarding 3, I actually use nonvar/1 and functor/3 in order to compare
> two terms in terms of their functor and arities. The corresponding
> Prolog program that I would write is:
> 
> comparable(T1,T2) :-
> 	nonvar(T1),
>         nonvar(T2),
> 	functor(T1, F, N),
>         functor(T2, F, N).

> Another question: how can I test if two neither non-ground nor ground
> terms are equal i.e. terms like g(A,b,R). This is == in Prolog, and
> what is corresponding operator for ~= in Mercury?  

I'm still missing the big picture here -- what is the real problem
that you are trying to solve?  What do these non-ground terms represent?
Why do you need to compare them?

Often the right way to solve these sorts of problems in Mercury is
to use a ground representation; see the standard library module `term'
for an example. However, without knowing more about your application,
it's hard to give definitive advice.

(Note that using `term' may also avoid the need for `arg' and `functor'.) 

Cheers,
	Fergus.

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