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Alternative futures? (Score:1)
Still, I don't think that quite solves the problem if you assert a fact and your query fails, you probably want to retract that fact.
This feels to me like you want an 'alternative futures' model of time: that is, when you backtrack, you not only go back to a previous 'time' but also arrange things so that when you go 'forward' again you are moving forward on a different timeline that diverges from the first at the point the backtrack went back to. If you change something and don't backtrack, subsequent c
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I've no intention of simulating the many-worlds hypothesis [wikipedia.org] in Prolog, thank you ;)
I'll leave that to Damian.
Re:Alternative futures? (Score:1)
If git can do it so can you.
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