<div dir="ltr">Thanks! I had no idea I should read that.<div><br></div><div>What kind of data structure does Mercury itself use to represent rules? I'd like to be able to search for information in any direction -- i.e., using the terminology of maps, any member of any relationship could be treated as a key or a value.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 12:41 AM Julien Fischer <<a href="mailto:jfischer@opturion.com">jfischer@opturion.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Hi Jeff,<br>
<br>
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018, Jeffrey Brown wrote:<br>
<br>
> I want to write a program in Mercury that lets a user add (simple<br>
> nonrecursive) rules at runtime, like "Bob knows Mary" or "eukaryotes<br>
> use oxygen". Is it possible?<br>
<br>
If you mean, is it possible to do it as in Prolog, using assert/1 and<br>
retract/1 to modify the clause database, then no. Mercury does not<br>
support that.<br>
<br>
In Mercury you would need to define your own data structures to hold the<br>
rules added a runtime (or use some of the ones in the standard library.)<br>
<br>
The section "Assert and retract" in the Prolog to Mercury transition<br>
guide has further details.<br>
<br>
Julien.<br>
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