A.7.2 Boolean expressions
A Boolean expression is one of:
0
false 1
true variable unknown truth value atom universally quantified variable ~
Exprlogical NOT Expr + Expr logical OR Expr * Expr logical AND Expr # Expr exclusive OR Var ^
Exprexistential quantification Expr =:=
Exprequality Expr =\=
Exprdisequality (same as #) Expr =<
Exprless or equal (implication) Expr >=
Exprgreater or equal Expr < Expr less than Expr > Expr greater than card(Is,Exprs)
see below +(Exprs)
see below *(Exprs)
see below
where Expr again denotes a Boolean expression.
The Boolean expression card(Is,Exprs)
is true iff the
number of true expressions in the list Exprs is a member of
the list Is of integers and integer ranges of the form From-To
.
+(Exprs)
and *(Exprs)
denote, respectively,
the disjunction and conjunction of all elements in the list Exprs
of Boolean expressions.
Atoms denote parametric values that are universally quantified. All universal quantifiers appear implicitly in front of the entire expression. In residual goals, universally quantified variables always appear on the right-hand side of equations. Therefore, they can be used to express functional dependencies on input variables.