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From: micha@ecrc.de (Micha Meier)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Standards question: behavior of arg/3
Keywords: ANSI, standard
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Date: 25 Oct 90 15:12:05 GMT
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In article <3992@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>> Is arg(-3,Term,Arg) ok?
>
>Except for the omitted spaces (it should be arg(-3, Term, Arg)),
>of course it is.

This actually reminds me - did Quintus change their way of printing Prolog
terms in the new release, or is everything still printed without spaces?
What is the position of ISO in this matter? I find it should be
standardised. It makes comparison of the output from two Prolog systems
easier.


--Micha
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