[chetah]

New to prolog, trying to understand how a list works in prolog.

I am trying to write a clause (what is a clause in this context?) sumList(List, sum) which returns the sum of the numbers in a list. an example would help a lot in seeing what is a clause?

[mostyfriedman]

you mean a predicate??, a predicate is basically a boolean function, it only returns true or false..

[mostyfriedman]

this is a simple problem, i'd show you the solution but you have to show some effort first..i'll give you a hint though, a list consists of a head and a tail right??, so the sum of the elements in the list will be the head + the elements in the tail..actually that was the solution, if you can figure out the base case and translate this to syntax then problem is solved

This post has been edited by mostyfriedman: 04 April 2009 - 02:46 PM

[chetah]

sumlist([],0).
sumlist([H|T],N) :- sumlist(T,N1), N is N1+H.
how close am I?

[mostyfriedman]

not close, you are there ...you got the solution