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Re: Why Prolog and CBV?



Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 20:09:29 -0800
To: Frank_Pfenning@ALONZO.TIP.CS.CMU.EDU, types@theory.lcs.mit.edu

One footnote:  Actual Prolog is not only incomplete but unsound,
due to the omission of the occurs check.  SCHEMdoes not make a 
similar compromise.  How come it is necessary (for speed) in the 
one case and not in the other?