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Substructural logic is logic without some or all of the structural rules. Is substructural Prolog, substructural logic programming possible? My question is connected with article https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-40030-3_8 Grammar Induction as Substructural Inductive Logic Programming - if substructural Prolog is possible then one can implement substructural inductive logic programming in it (e.g. http://ilasp.com/ for the answer set version of ILP over Prolog in the non-substructural setting) and apply, e.g. in grammar induction case.

How hard the usual (e.g. SWI) Prolog should be remade to be used as substructural Prolog?

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    $\begingroup$ lix.polytechnique.fr/~dale/lolli $\endgroup$
    – Dan Doel
    Jul 19, 2019 at 1:05
  • $\begingroup$ @DanDoel: do you know of an ordered one, like what Jeff Polakow did in his thesis? Surely someone at CMU must have implemented something. $\endgroup$ Jul 19, 2019 at 11:59
  • $\begingroup$ I'm afraid I don't know of anything like that, but I'm far from an expert in this area. $\endgroup$
    – Dan Doel
    Jul 20, 2019 at 13:46

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Logic programming with substructural logics has been studied, starting in the second half of the 90's. I am not an expert, but I can probably provide enough references to get you going.

There is Dale Miller's Lolli, a programming language for linear logic programming.

Major research was carried out by Frank Pfenning and his coworkers and students. For example:

I am pretty sure someone implemented logic programming for ordered linear logic, poke around the work done by Jeff Polakow and Frank Pfenning. I don't seem to be able to find it right now.

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