<div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/22 Richard Carlsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richardc@it.uu.se">richardc@it.uu.se</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Peter Michaux wrote:<br><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Were they concisely chosen to help the programmer in some way, were<br>
> they to make implementation easier or more efficient, or did they just<br>
> happen somewhere along the way?<br>
<br>
</div>In all likelihood they happened because that is how predicates work<br>
in Prolog, just like most of Erlang's lexical conventions were taken<br>
from Prolog. (The first experiments with Erlang were implemented on<br>
top of Prolog.)</blockquote><div><br>Yes, that is exactly what happened, it was "inherited" from Prolog. Along with a lot of things apart from the syntax.<br><br>Robert<br><br></div></div>