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title: "Term Description: A Simple Powerful Extension to Prolog Data Structures"
authors:
  - "Hideyuki Nakashima"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/138"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0138.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1985
pages: "708-709"
track: "Logic Programming"
keywords:
---

# Term Description: A Simple Powerful Extension to Prolog Data Structures

Hideyuki Nakashima

*Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 708-709.

## Abstract

Term desc::riptial is a sinple,extensicn of tenns. For 9Xallple, functicnal. ootaticn and lazy executicn of a prograu is i.nt:roclJoed in a very natural mamer withcut changing the basic mec:hanism of the oarp.ltaticn, such 88 unificaticn and bacJctrack1ng. Especially, the readability of functicnal. 11s introduoed withcut actually int:rccb::ing functicnal. cxn:epts.