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From: lee@munnari.oz.au (Lee Naish)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Prefix operators and blanks (was: WG17)
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Date: 6 Dec 89 01:53:43 GMT
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In article <24703@cup.portal.com> pgl@cup.portal.com (Peter G Ludemann) writes:
>I therefore suggest that the Prolog standard specifically
>disallow using a prefix operator as a functor.

I think it is very important that there is a canonical way to write a
term so it can always be read back in, no matter what the operator
precedences are.  Peter's suggestion seems to break this.

	lee