% File : STRUCT.PL % Author : Richard A. O'Keefe. % Updated: 15 September 1984 % Purpose: General term hacking. See also OCCUR.PL, METUTL.PL. :- op(950,xfy,#). % Used for disjunction :- op(920,xfy,&). % Used for conjunction /* These routines view a term as a data-structure. In particular, they handle Prolog variables in the terms as objects. This is not entirely satisfactory. A proper separations of levels is needed. */ % subst(Substitution, Term, Result) applies a substitution, where %::= % |= & % |# % The last two possibilities only make sense when the input Term is % an equation, and the substitution is a set of solutions. The % "conjunction" of substitutions really refers to back-substitution, % and the order in which the substitutions are done may be crucial. % If the substitution is ill-formed, and only then, subst will fail. subst(Subst1 & Subst2, Old, New) :- subst(Subst1, Old, Mid), !, subst(Subst2, Mid, New). subst(Subst1 # Subst2, Old, New1 # New2) :- subst(Subst1, Old, New1), !, subst(Subst2, Old, New2). subst(Lhs = Rhs, Old, New) :- !, subst(Lhs, Rhs, Old, New). subst(true, Old, Old). subst(Lhs, Rhs, Old, Rhs) :- % apply substitution Old == Lhs, !. subst(_, _, Old, Old) :- % copy unchanged var(Old), !. subst(Lhs, Rhs, Old, New) :- % apply to arguments functor(Old, Functor, Arity), functor(New, Functor, Arity), subst(Arity, Lhs, Rhs, Old, New). subst(0, _, _, _, _) :- !. subst(N, Lhs, Rhs, Old, New) :- arg(N, Old, OldArg), subst(Lhs, Rhs, OldArg, NewArg), arg(N, New, NewArg), M is N-1, !, subst(M, Lhs, Rhs, Old, New). % occ(Subterm, Term, Times) counts the number of times that the subterm % occurs in the term. It requires the subterm to be ground. We have to % introduce occ/4, because occ's last argument may already be instantiated. % It is useful to do so, because we can use accumulator arguments to make % occ/4 and occ/5 tail-recursive. NB if you merely want to check whether % SubTerm occurs in Term or not, it is possible to do better than this. % See Util:Occur.Pl . occ(SubTerm, Term, Occurrences) :- occ(SubTerm, Term, 0, Times), !, Occurrences = Times. occ(SubTerm, Term, SoFar, Total) :- Term == SubTerm, !, Total is SoFar+1. occ(_, Term, Total, Total) :- var(Term), !. occ(SubTerm, Term, SoFar, Total) :- functor(Term, _, Arity), !, occ(Arity, SubTerm, Term, SoFar, Total). occ(0, _, _, Total, Total) :- !. occ(N, SubTerm, Term, SoFar, Total) :- arg(N, Term, Arg), occ(SubTerm, Arg, SoFar, Accum), M is N-1, !, occ(M, SubTerm, Term, Accum, Total). % The previous two predicates operate on ground arguments, and have some % pretence of being logical (though at the next level up). The next one % is thoroughly non-logical. Given a Term, % variables(Term, VarList) % returns a list whose elements are the variables occuring in Term, each % appearing exactly once in the list. var_member_check(L, V) checks % that the variable V is *not* a member of the list L. The original % version of variables/2 had its second argument flagged as "?", but this % is actually no use, because the order of elements in the list is not % specified, and may change from implementation to implementation. % The only application of this routine I have seen is in Lawrence's code % for tidy_withvars. The new version of tidy uses copy_ground (next page). % If that is the only use, this routine could be dropped. variables(Term, VarList) :- variables(Term, [], VarList). variables(Term, VarList, [Term|VarList]) :- var(Term), var_member_check(VarList, Term), !. variables(Term, VarList, VarList) :- var(Term), !. variables(Term, SoFar, VarList) :- functor(Term, _, Arity), !, variables(Arity, Term, SoFar, VarList). variables(0, _, VarList, VarList) :- !. variables(N, Term, SoFar, VarList) :- arg(N, Term, Arg), variables(Arg, SoFar, Accum), M is N-1, !, variables(M, Term, Accum, VarList). var_member_check([], _). var_member_check([Head|Tail], Var) :- Var \== Head, !, var_member_check(Tail, Var). /* In order to handle statements and expressions which contain variables, we have to create a copy of the given data-structure with variables replaced by ground terms of some sort, do an ordinary tidy, then put the variables back. Since we can use subst/3 to do this last step, a natural choice of working structure in the first step is a substitution $VAR(k) = Vk & ... & $VAR(0) = V0 & 9 = 9. The rest is straight-forward. The cost of building the copy is o(E*V) where E is the size of the original expression and V is the number of variables it contains. The final substitution is the same order of cost. For what it's worth, copy_ground(X,Y,_) & numbervars(X,0,_) => X == Y. */ copy_ground(Term, Copy, Substitution) :- copy_ground(Term, Copy, 9=9, Substitution). copy_ground(Term, Copy, SubstIn, SubstOut) :- var(Term), !, subst_member(SubstIn, Term, Copy, SubstOut). copy_ground(Term, Copy, SubstIn, SubstOut) :- functor(Term, Functor, Arity), functor(Copy, Functor, Arity), !, copy_ground(Arity, Term, Copy, SubstIn, SubstOut). copy_ground(0, _, _, SubstIn, SubstIn) :- !. copy_ground(N, Term, Copy, SubstIn, SubstOut) :- arg(N, Term, TermN), copy_ground(TermN, CopyN, SubstIn, SubstMid), arg(N, Copy, CopyN), M is N-1, !, copy_ground(M, Term, Copy, SubstMid, SubstOut). subst_member(SubstIn, Term, Copy, SubstIn) :- subst_member(SubstIn, Term, Copy), !. subst_member(SubstIn, Term, Copy, (Copy = Term) & SubstIn) :- ( SubstIn = (('$VAR'(M) = _) & _), N is M+1 % M+1 variables seen ; N = 0 % SubstIn = 9=9 ), !, Copy = '$VAR'(N). subst_member((Copy = Vrbl) & _, Term, Copy) :- Vrbl == Term, !. subst_member(_ & Rest, Term, Copy) :- subst_member(Rest, Term, Copy).