China

n 1: a communist nation in eastern Asia; the most populous

country in the world [syn: {China}, {mainland China}, {Communist

China}, {Red China}, {PRC}, {People's Republic of China}]

2: dishes, vases, or ornaments

3: a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by

Chiang Kaishek after the conquest of mainland China by

communists led by Mao Zedong [syn: {Taiwan}, {China}, {Nationalist

China}, {Republic of China}, {Formosa}]

Echidna

{Constraint logic programming} embedded in an

{object-oriented} language. The {syntax} is an extension of

{Edinburgh Prolog}.

["Hierarchical Arc Consistency Applied to Numeric Processing

in Constraint Logic Programming", G. Sidebottom et al,

TR-91-06, CSS-IS, Simon Fraser U, and Comp Intell 8(4)

(1992)].

{(ftp://cs.sfu.edu/pub/ecl/papers)}

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(1994-12-08)