Knowing when to use cut in prolog
I've took a course in which I learned some prolog. I couldn't figure out how / when to use cuts. Even though I get the general idea of cuts, I can't seem to use them properly. Can anyone explain it briefly or give a good tutorial (that's not learnprolognow.org) on "cuts" that they can recommend? TL;DR: Don't. The cut prunes Prolog's search tree. That is, given a pure Prolog program without cut and the same program with cuts the only difference is that the program with cuts might spend less time in fruitless branches, and thus is more efficient ; might have fewer answers ; it might also