Parse To Prolog Variables Using DCG
You want to associate ground terms like x
(no need to write 'x'
) with uninstantiated variables. Certainly that does not constitute a pure relation. So it is not that clear to me that you actually want this.
And where do you get the list [x, &&, x]
in the first place? You probably have some kind of tokenizer. If possible, try to associate variable names to variables prior to the actual parsing. If you insist to perform that association during parsing you will have to thread a pair of variables throughout your entire grammar. That is, instead of a clean grammar like
power(P) --> factor(F), power_r(F, P).
you will now have to write
power(P, D0,D) --> factor(F, D0,D1), power_r(F, P, D1,D).
% ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^
since you are introducing context into an otherwise context free grammar.
When parsing Prolog text, the same problem occurs. The association between a variable name and a concrete variable is already established during tokenizing. The actual parser does not have to deal with it.
There are essentially two ways to perform this during tokenization:
1mo collect all occurrences Name=Variable
in a list and unify them later:
v(N-V, [N-V|D],D) --> [N], {maybesometest(N)}.
unify_nvs(NVs) :-
keysort(NVs, NVs2),
uniq(NVs2).
uniq([]).
uniq([NV|NVs]) :-
head_eq(NVs, NV).
uniq(NVs).
head_eq([], _).
head_eq([N-V|_],N-V).
head_eq([N1-_|_],N2-_) :-
dif(N1,N2).
2do use some explicit dictionary to merge them early on.
Somewhat related is this question.