Understanding Unification in Logic and Computer Science
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Summary
The article explains the concept of unification in logic and computer science, detailing its applications in logic programming and type inference. It presents the basic unification algorithm with a complete implementation, using terms built from constants, variables, and function applications, borrowed from first-order logic and Prolog.
Key quotes
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Unification has several interesting applications, notably in logic programming and type inference.
We'll be using terms built from constants, variables and function applications.
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