How do you append an element to a list in place in Prolog?

Question

If I have a list in Prolog such as X = [1, 2, 3, 4], how do I add the element 5 to the end of the list to have X = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]?

The append function needs two lists

Answer 1

Since Prolog has append which only accepts lists, why don't we use it to insert our element in one of the lists. i.e.

% E = element, L = list, R = result
% e.g. add_elem_in_list ([1,2,3,4], 5, R).
add_elem_in_list(L, E, R) :- append(L, [E], R).