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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: unification of alternatives
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 05:19:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bhmabxo.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1142239620.8419.314.camel@budgie.wigram>

> I have an interesting problem with unification algorithm.
> The problem is basically that given two terms,
> either that unify, they don't unify, or *NEW* they don't
> unify yet but might later.

I believe you're looking for something called "residualization" in
constraint and logic programming: if the unification algorithm can return
not just a substitution but also some residual constraints that it wasn't
able to resolve (but which may be resolvable later).


        Stefan


      reply	other threads:[~2006-03-13 10:21 UTC|newest]

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2006-03-13 10:19 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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