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["Linas Vepstas" <linasvepstas@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/5/26 Ben Goertzel <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Linas,
>
>> README below ...
>> If anyone plans to use this besides me, let me know.
>
> This looks nice.   I'll have more comments later...
>
>>      Delete the incoming atom, and all atoms that point at it.
>
> So if we have
>
> InheritanceLink x y

Hmm I suppose I could add some "syntactic sugar" to
convert the above into valid scheme code ... I still
couldn't avoid all the parens, though ...

> and we call
>
> cog-delete x
>
> will this delete y, or just delete x and the InheritanceLink?

(cog-delete x) will spew an error, complaining that x has
incoming links.

(cog-delete-recursive x) will delete both x and the inheritance
link. (but not y)