Article: 46262 of comp.lang.prolog Path: tunews.univie.ac.at!aconews-feed.univie.ac.at!aconews.univie.ac.at!not-for-mail X-newsreader: xrn 10.00-beta-3 From: ulrich@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Ulrich Neumerkel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Prolog portability quest 2 Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:15:25 GMT Message-ID: <2010Jul19.101525@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Lines: 13 NNTP-Posting-Host: a4.complang.tuwien.ac.at X-Trace: 1279527575 tunews.univie.ac.at 10578 128.130.173.65 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tuwien.ac.at Xref: tunews.univie.ac.at comp.lang.prolog:46262 Start up your Prolog and see what happens with the query: [:- -x] = [(:- -x)]. Does it succeed? Does it fail? Why? Obviously, there is a standard for this. ISO/IEC 13211-1 published 1995-06-01. BTW, above is invalid Prolog text in the standard. http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/iso-prolog/ppq/