Function

Syntax

findall pattern-to-instantiate goal-to-prove

Arguments

pattern-to-instantiate is a list or symbol. goal-to-prove is any backward chaining goal.

Description

The backward chaining inference engine is started to look for all sets of bindings which satisfy goal-to-prove . Using those each of bindings, pattern-to-instantiate is instantiated and returned as a list.

Values

A list is returned containing zero or more occurrences of pattern-to-instantiate , each instantiated with a different set of bindings which satisfies goal-to-prove .

Examples

(findall '(?x is in (1 2 3)) '(member ?x (1 2 3)))

returns

((1 is in (1 2 3))

 (2 is in (1 2 3))

 (3 is in (1 2 3)))

(findall '(?truck is a truck) '(truck ?truck))

returns

((#<TRUCK TRUCK1> IS A TRUCK)

 (#<TRUCK TRUCK2> IS A TRUCK))

See also

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