[racket] [racket-users]Is Racklog suitable to learn Prolog? A simple example just fails.

From: WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju (juzhenliang at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 3 19:46:17 EDT 2014

Okay, Thank you.


On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>
wrote:

>
> Yes, I corrected your program and ran into this bug.
>
> Try to use Kanren instead of Racklog. It isn't completely a legacy package
> but I doubt we can get a quick fix here.
>
> -- Matthias
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 3, 2014, at 4:53 PM, WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju wrote:
>
> Sorry, my example is not correct.
> But this one still does not work:
>
> #lang at-exp racket
>
> (require racklog)
>
> (define %edge
>   (%rel ()
>     [('a 'b)]
>     [('b 'c)]
>     [('c 'd)]
>     [('d 'a)]))
>
> (define %path
>   (%rel (X Y Z)
>     [(X Y) (%edge X Y)]
>     [(X Y) (%edge X Z) (%path Z Y)]))
>
> (let answer ([r (%which (X Y) (%path X Y))])
>   (printf "~a --> ~a~n" (cdar r) (cdadr r))
>   (answer (%more)))
>
> This version also will not terminate.
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> If you want to learn Prolog, why not use a free Prolog implementation?
>
>
> Simply speaking, Modern Prolog seems to cut the illumos-based SunOS off, I
> cannot build it without headache and they does not answer me about this
> issue.
> So I wander if Racklog is a legacy package?
>
>
>>
>> If you want to learn about relational programming, use miniKanren, which
>> is available of cKanren. Then you can also get to constraints. Maintainer
>> cc-ed.
>>
>> -- Matthias
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 3, 2014, at 6:48 AM, WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju wrote:
>>
>> > This example is rewritten from the datalog version.
>> >
>> > #lang racket
>> >
>> > (require racklog)
>> >
>> > (define %edge
>> >   (%rel ()
>> >     [('a 'b)]
>> >     [('b 'c)]
>> >     [('c 'd)]
>> >     [('d 'a)]))
>> >
>> > (define %path
>> >   (%rel (X Y)
>> >     [(X Y) (%edge X Y)]
>> >     [(X Y) (%edge X 'Z)
>> >              (%path 'Z Y)]))
>> >
>> > (%find-all (X Y) (%path X Y))
>> >
>> > It only gives four results.
>> >
>> > #lang racklog
>> >
>> > edge(a, b).
>> > edge(b, c).
>> > edge(c, d).
>> > edge(d, a).
>> >
>> > path(X, Y) :- edge(X, Y).
>> > path(X, Y) :- edge(X, Z), path(Z, Y).
>> >
>> > path(X, Y)?
>> >
>> > and this version will not terminate.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
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>
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