Re: Newbie trouble with ebg from the CMU AI archive

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On Sunday, July 28, 2002, at 02:58  PM, <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm a newbie. I assume that the problem getting ebg.pl to process 
> eb_1.pl (attached: both are said to be in Edinburgh syntax) is due to a 
> difference between gnuprolog and Edinburgh prolog but I don't know 
> enough (still waiting to get Clocksin and Mellish from BN) to resolve 
> it. I know by looking at the gnuprolog manual the syntax of the error 
> msg that's generated, but not enough to move foward. At this point, all 
> I want to do is simple to get ebg.pl to correctly process ebg_1.pl. Any 
> help would be appreciated.

For gprolog: assert/1 and not/1 are not defined in gprolog--use 
asserta/1 and '\+'/1 instead.
For clause(foo(X, Y), Z) to work, foo/2 must be "public"; so add lines 
of the form ":-public(foo/2)." to the beginning of ebg_1.pl.
I've attached my modified versions of these programs.

Cheers,
-lindsey

ebg.pl
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ebg_1.pl
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