On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Brent Millare <brent.mill...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I'm taking a more serious dive into logic programming and I have a > question about facts. > > *Is it true that that goals and facts are the same in that you can use > unification and conde to get the same effect? So querying a conde of > multiple unifications is like stating a bunch of facts of a relation, and > then querying that relation?* > That's how I conceptualise it. I think the similarities between the two are pretty cool :) > * > * > *Also then if this is true, is it also true that the reason we have facts > is that they can be indexed and thus be more efficient?* > > Facts are also a convenient way of incrementally adding to a relation, but certainly IMO their primary purpose in core.logic is efficiency. Thanks, Ambrose -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
