Which functor should I use to express Pair and Tuples? (x,y) or x-y? (x,y,z) or x-y-z? In the The Power of Prolog , the author says that Pairs are terms with principal functor (-)/2. I have some confusion because , seems more natural. Thanks.

Prolog convention of Pairs and Tuples

brebs May 9, 2022, 6:35pm 3

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