Re: discontiguous predicate

[Luis Quintano]

You should do

discontiguous(female/1)

See you,

~/Luis Quintano

On 04 May 2001 11:42:31 +0100, carlos calderon wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I've got a simple list of facts,  i.e:
> 
> female(joan).
> male(david).
> male(paul).
> female(rachel).
> 
> Well, if i try to compile this, it gives me a warning: discontiguous 
> predicate female/1.
> Ok, I can change the order of my predicate to make them "contiguous" but 
> that's not a proper solution.
> I went to the gnu_prolog manual, pag-42 section 5.1.5 and based upon that I 
> thought this might work:
> discontiguous(female).
> female(joan).
> male(david).
> male(paul).
> female(rachel).
> 
> but it didn't. I got the same warning.
> 
> Again, apologies if the question has been answered before but I am new to the 
> list and on the steep end of prolog's learning curve.
> 
> -Carlos