Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!reddy From: reddy@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.lang.prolog Subject: Re: Cut, var, nonvar, and Goebel's Message-ID: <29700032@uiucdcs> Date: Wed, 9-Jul-86 16:04:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.29700032 Posted: Wed Jul 9 16:04:00 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jul-86 07:39:41 EDT References: <3830@utah-cs.UUCP> Lines: 10 Nf-ID: #R:utah-cs.UUCP:3830:uiucdcs:29700032:000:315 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!reddy Jul 9 15:04:00 1986 /* Written 12:03 pm Jul 2, 1986 by rb@cci632.UUCP in uiucdcs:net.lang.prolog */ I normally think of a cut symbol as an uninstantiated variable that gets instantiated to false. Rex B. /* End of text from uiucdcs:net.lang.prolog */ Can you elaborate on this? I can't see how you can think of cut as a variable.