Can you describe call/fresh in english?

(What problem does it solve? Do you have a reference to an online manual?)

When I try searching on the topic, I currently get oblique references and
journal of abnormal psychology pages...

Thanks,

-- 
Raul

On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 8:51 PM Raoul Schorer <raoul.scho...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to implement minikanren <http://www.minikanren.org> in J. I
> have it almost working, but I am stuck in the last part of the core
> implementation
> <https://github.com/jasonhemann/microKanren/blob/master/microKanren.scm>.
> I
> do not understand how to write "call/fresh" from the scheme code:
>
> In J, where "empty_state" is a list of 2 boxes emulating "s/c":
> (call empty_state) (equivalent 5) (fresh empty_state)
> which as a first step evaluates to:
> (1$0) (equivalent 5) ('',.@;1)
>
> In the above working code, "empty_state" is repeated, and that is what I
> want to avoid. "equivalent" is a conjunction, and "call" and "fresh" are
> both monadic verbs applied to the noun "empty_state". In the scheme version
> "call" and "fresh" are united in "call/fresh", but this would require me to
> pass the "equivalent" conjunction as argument to "call/fresh".
>
> Can you help me write the scheme "call/fresh" equivalent, please?
> my code is at https://github.com/Rscho314/new_kanren
>
> Thanks,
> Raoul
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