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From: bimandre@icarus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Andre Marien)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: carridge return
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Date: 23 May 91 09:11:00 GMT
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Re: <5708@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>

> First off, people usually ask "how do I do X" questions because
> they want to *DO* X.
They want the know-how to do X. The library may solve their current problem,
but shurely does not improve their skills. It may lead to 'readable' code,
in spirit equivalent to:
	X =.. [_|L], length(L,N)

> if there are decent comments it isn't pure advertising.
If an ad shows a nice landscape, it is not about sigaret smoking?

> Why didn't Andre Marien complain about the postings from other
> Prolog suppliers in the thread about reading from a character list?
Relevant question! You should think about it.
Just one comment: other vendors often say:
in X we have the builtin Y to solve Z.
This is nice to know and pretty harmless if still an ad.
I prefer BIM does not do that,
unless many others have allready done it. (yes, we have 'sread')

Andre' Marien
bimandre@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
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