Hello, this is my first post here and I wanted to share a small project I’ve been tinkering with for some time and now thanks to the quarantine had some more time to work on.
I work with functional Scala at my job and I was curious to see how some basic type classes would translate to Prolog. What i came up with is that my predicates can take an additional term that describes the structure of values i pass to them, effectively exchanging composition of predicates to composition of type declarations when complex data is processed, like this:
% list of lists of integers with addition
?- reduce(list / list(int(+)), [[1,2],[3]], Result).
Result = 6
Some more examples are available in the repo:
I’m not sure how useful this sort of approach can be but I think I am going to develop it further and try to use it in something small. Any feedback or comments appreciated.