Question

I’m new to Prolog and stuck on some programming homework. one of them should work like this:

myDel(1, [1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4], M).

the result should be:

M = [2, 3, 4].

to solve this, one can only use append recursively and can not use the built-in delete.

Can somebody help?

Answer 1

I must say that it’s quite difficult to help without just spoon-feeding you the answer. Prolog is a bit like that. Here’s a partial answer that hopefully doesn’t give too much away:

myDel(N, [], []).
myDel(N, [N|T], U) :- ...