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reverse(+List, ?Reversed)

Succeeds if Reversed is the reversed list List.
+List
A List.
?Reversed
List or variable.

Description

The List is reversed and the resulting list is unified with Reverse.

The definition of this Prolog library predicate is:

reverse(List, Rev) :-
        reverse(List, Rev, []).

reverse([], L, L).
reverse([H|T], L, SoFar) :-
        reverse(T, L, [H|SoFar]).
This predicate does not perform any type testing functions.

Modes and Determinism

Fail Conditions

Fails if Reverse does not unify with the reversed version of List.

Resatisfiable

No.

Examples

Success:
    [eclipse]: reverse([1,2,3,4,5], X).
    X = [5, 4, 3, 2, 1]
    yes.




See Also

append / 3, member / 2