Hi all, I’m trying to find a way to systematically assign meaningful names to (fresh) variables. The structures whose variables I want to name are “metarules”. It’s not important what those are exactly (they are second-order definite clauses whose literals are enclosed in first-order terms), but I…

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I assume you already understands this only makes sense if you want to write your term to a file for later human inspection, no? You can bind your variables to ‘$VAR’(Name), e.g., ?- print(hello('$VAR'('P'))). hello(P) In general, Prolog variables have no name, except local to a term when this ter…

Uh. Thanks, that looks much simpler than I thought. I just have to generate the atomic names for ‘$VAR’/1 terms, then. If variables have no name- what are the _104984 etc things shown at the top level? I assumed they were Swi-Prolog’s internal representation of a variable. I assume you already un…

I feel like the tools cited above are sufficient to do whatever you like, but you seem like you’re missing something? If you want P,Q,R you can do that. You can easily get all the variables of a program, loop through them and assign names to each, and print it out that way.

Thanks. Yes, I was missing the part about ‘$VAR’(‘P’). I was able to do what I wanted to do: ?- print_quantified_metarules([chain]). (Chain) ∃.P,Q,R ∀.x,y,z: P(x,y)← Q(x,z),R(z,y) true.

This post is many months latter and I did not re-read all the post but this might be of interest: Pack evil – prolog/ destructive.pl In particular defvar (Var:term) is det defvar/1 allows you to declare one empty d-variable (but most of the times it is pointless).

Interesting, thanks. I need to look into that pack more carefuly anyway :slight_smile:

In debugging order_by/2 found witness/2 For examples see: Order_by/2 examples

How to assign meaningful names to (fresh) variables?

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