4.21 Analysing and Constructing Terms
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      • Built-in Predicates
        • Analysing and Constructing Terms
          • functor/3
          • functor/4
          • arg/3
          • =../2
          • compound_name_arity/3
          • compound_name_arguments/3
          • numbervars/3
          • numbervars/4
          • var_number/2
          • term_variables/2
          • nonground/2
          • term_variables/3
          • term_singletons/2
          • is_most_general_term/1
          • copy_term/2
          • copy_term/4
          • copy_term_nat/4
          • Non-logical operations on terms
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[semidet]nonground(+Term, -Var)
True when Var is a variable in Term. Fails if Term is ground (see ground/1). This predicate is intended for coroutining to trigger a wakeup if Term becomes ground, e.g., using when/2. The current implementation always returns the first variable in depth-first left-right search. Ideally it should return a random member of the set of variables (see term_variables/2) to realise logarithmic complexity for the ground trigger. Compatible with ECLiPSe and hProlog.