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/*  $Id$

    Part of SWI-Prolog

    Author:        Jan Wielemaker
    E-mail:        jan@swi.psy.uva.nl
    WWW:           http://www.swi-prolog.org
    Copyright (C): 1985-2002, University of Amsterdam

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
    as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
    of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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    As a special exception, if you link this library with other files,
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*/

:- module(occurs,
	  [ contains_term/2,		% +SubTerm, +Term
	    contains_var/2,		% +SubTerm, +Term
	    free_of_term/2,		% +SubTerm, +Term
	    free_of_var/2,		% +SubTerm, +Term
	    occurrences_of_term/3,	% +SubTerm, +Term, ?Tally
	    occurrences_of_var/3,	% +SubTerm, +Term, ?Tally
	    sub_term/2,			% -SubTerm, +Term
	    sub_var/2			% -SubTerm, +Term (SWI extra)
	  ]).

/** <module> Finding and counting sub-terms

This  is  a  SWI-Prolog  implementation  of  the  corresponding  Quintus
library, based on the generalised arg/3 predicate of SWI-Prolog.

@see library(terms) provides similar predicates and is probably
     more wide-spread than this library.
*/

%%	contains_term(+Sub, +Term) is semidet.
%
%	Succeeds if Sub is contained in Term (=, deterministically)

contains_term(X, X) :- !.
contains_term(X, Term) :-
	compound(Term),
	arg(_, Term, Arg),
	contains_term(X, Arg), !.


%%	contains_var(+Sub, +Term) is det.
%
%	Succeeds if Sub is contained in Term (==, deterministically)

contains_var(X0, X1) :-
	X0 == X1, !.
contains_var(X, Term) :-
	compound(Term),
	arg(_, Term, Arg),
	contains_var(X, Arg), !.

%%	free_of_term(+Sub, +Term)
%
%	Succeeds of Sub does not unify to any subterm of Term

free_of_term(Sub, Term) :-
	\+ contains_term(Sub, Term).

%%	free_of_var(+Sub, +Term)
%
%	Succeeds of Sub is not equal (==) to any subterm of Term

free_of_var(Sub, Term) :-
	\+ contains_var(Sub, Term).

%%	occurrences_of_term(+SubTerm, +Term, ?Count)
%
%	Count the number of SubTerms in Term

occurrences_of_term(Sub, Term, Count) :-
	count(sub_term(Sub, Term), Count).

%%	occurrences_of_var(+SubTerm, +Term, ?Count)
%
%	Count the number of SubTerms in Term

occurrences_of_var(Sub, Term, Count) :-
	count(sub_var(Sub, Term), Count).

%%	sub_term(-Sub, +Term)
%
%	Generates (on backtracking) all subterms of Term.

sub_term(X, X).
sub_term(X, Term) :-
	compound(Term),
	arg(_, Term, Arg),
	sub_term(X, Arg).

%%	sub_var(-Sub, +Term)
%
%	Generates (on backtracking) all subterms (==) of Term.

sub_var(X0, X1) :-
	X0 == X1.
sub_var(X, Term) :-
	compound(Term),
	arg(_, Term, Arg),
	sub_var(X, Arg).


		 /*******************************
		 *		UTIL		*
		 *******************************/

%%	count(+Goal, -Count)
%
%	Count number of times Goal succeeds.

count(Goal, Count) :-
	State = count(0),
	(   Goal,
	    arg(1, State, N0),
	    N is N0 + 1,
	    nb_setarg(1, State, N),
	    fail
	;   arg(1, State, Count)
	).