Apologies for such a basic question, but what exactly is the definition of an ‘atom’? What is it that I am creating that gprolog does not want to clean up?
Thank you, David Logan > On Jul 4, 2017, at 9:54 AM, Daniel Diaz <daniel.d...@univ-paris1.fr> wrote: > > gprolog does not have an atom garbage collector. So it is important to > control the number of created atoms. > If this becomes an issue it is better to switch to strings (which are handled > as Prolog list of char codes and thus are recovered at backtracking). > > Daniel > >> Le 3 juil. 2017 à 07:44, David Logan <djlogan2...@gmail.com >> <mailto:djlogan2...@gmail.com>> a écrit : >> >> Well, it doesn’t seem to be sub_atom as far as it goes. I wrote my own >> left() in order to do the same job, and the new code still fails with atom >> table full. At this point, I could use some direction as to why this may be >> happening. I do not see any nesting situation that would cause this. It >> appears to me that as I backtrack to the repeat clause, it should remove the >> atoms that are no longer in use. >> >> David Logan >> >> >>> On Jul 2, 2017, at 3:07 PM, David Logan <djlogan2...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:djlogan2...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> I am trying to use sub_atom to get a substring. It fails with “atom table >>> full.” When I remove that single line and instead hard code some value to >>> “NewPrefix”, it works fine (other than not writing the correct words of >>> course.) Is this a bug, or does anyone know why this would be legitimately >>> failing? >>> >>> I am not sure how this will arrive at users inboxes, so let me state that I >>> am trying to attach two files: The test prolog file, and the input file I >>> am using. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> David Logan >>> >>> >>> <test5.pl> >>> <wordlist.txt> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users-prolog mailing list >> Users-prolog@gnu.org <mailto:Users-prolog@gnu.org> >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/users-prolog >
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