RE: car color defaults: a story about Scoped Negation As Failure/log:notIncludes

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 23:26 +0200, Gerd Wagner wrote:
> > In fact, every use of default negation *always* had a clear 
> > scope and I am not aware of anyone who (thoughtfully) advocated 
> > default negation and imagined otherwise.
> 
> I guess Dan and others are concerned about making the
> scope explicit in the object language.

Yes, quite.

>  This is indeed
> an option that is not supported by traditional formal
> LP languages (although it is supported by Prolog's
> metaprogramming capabilities). But you (Michael) say 
> that FLORA-2 supports making the scope explicit, right? 
> Maybe you can give us an example how this looks like 
> in FLORA-2 and what it means in the underlying formal
> semantics? 

Yes, please.

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