SWI-Prolog 9.2.9 Reference Manual: Section A.3

## A.3 library(apply): Apply predicates on a list

See also
  - `apply_macros.pl` provides compile-time expansion for part of this library.
  - http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/ok/pllib.htm
  - Unit test code in `src/Tests/library/test_apply.pl`
To be done
  Add include/4, include/5, exclude/4, exclude/5

This module defines meta-predicates that apply a predicate on all members of a list.

All predicates support partial application in the Goal argument. This means that these calls are identical:

    ?- maplist(=, [foo, foo], [X, Y]).
    ?- maplist(=(foo), [X, Y]).

[det]include(:Goal, +List1, ?List2)
  Filter elements for which Goal succeeds. True if List2 contains those elements Xi of List1 for which `call(Goal, Xi)` succeeds.
  See also
    exclude/3, partition/4, convlist/3.
  Compatibility
    Older versions of SWI-Prolog had sublist/3 with the same arguments and semantics.
[det]exclude(:Goal, +List1, ?List2)
  Filter elements for which Goal fails. True if List2 contains those elements Xi of List1 for which `call(Goal, Xi)` fails.
  See also
    include/3, partition/4
[det]partition(:Pred, +List, ?Included, ?Excluded)
  Filter elements of List according to Pred. True if Included contains all elements for which `call(Pred, X)` succeeds and Excluded contains the remaining elements.
  See also
    include/3, exclude/3, partition/5.
[semidet]partition(:Pred, +List, ?Less, ?Equal, ?Greater)
  Filter List according to Pred in three sets. For each element Xi of List, its destination is determined by `call(Pred, Xi, Place)`, where Place must be unified to one of `<`, `=` or `>`. Pred must be deterministic.
  See also
    partition/4
maplist(:Goal, ?List1)
maplist(:Goal, ?List1, ?List2)
maplist(:Goal, ?List1, ?List2, ?List3)
maplist(:Goal, ?List1, ?List2, ?List3, ?List4)
  True if Goal is successfully applied on all matching elements of the list. The maplist family of predicates is defined as:

      maplist(G, [X_11, ..., X_1n],
                 [X_21, ..., X_2n],
                 ...,
                 [X_m1, ..., X_mn]) :-
         call(G, X_11, ..., X_m1),
         call(G, X_12, ..., X_m2),
         ...
         call(G, X_1n, ..., X_mn).

  This family of predicates is deterministic iff Goal is deterministic and List1 is a proper list, i.e., a list that ends in `[]`.

[det]convlist(:Goal, +ListIn, -ListOut)
  Similar to maplist/3, but elements for which `call(Goal, ElemIn, _)` fails are omitted from ListOut. For example (using `library(yall)`):

      ?- convlist([X,Y]>>(integer(X), Y is X^2),
                  [3, 5, foo, 2], L).
      L = [9, 25, 4].

  Compatibility
    Also appears in YAP `library(maplist)` and SICStus `library(lists)`.
foldl(:Goal, +List, +V0, -V)
foldl(:Goal, +List1, +List2, +V0, -V)
foldl(:Goal, +List1, +List2, +List3, +V0, -V)
foldl(:Goal, +List1, +List2, +List3, +List4, +V0, -V)
  Fold an ensemble of m (0 `<=` m `<=` 4) lists of length n head-to-tail ("fold-left"), using columns of m list elements as arguments for Goal. The `foldl` family of predicates is defined as follows, with V0 an initial value and V the final value of the folding operation:

      foldl(G, [X_11, ..., X_1n],
               [X_21, ..., X_2n],
               ...,
               [X_m1, ..., X_mn], V0, V) :-
         call(G, X_11, ..., X_m1, V0, V1),
         call(G, X_12, ..., X_m2, V1, V2),
         ...
         call(G, X_1n, ..., X_mn, V<n-1>, V).

  No implementation for a corresponding `foldr` is given. A `foldr` implementation would consist in first calling reverse/2 on each of the m input lists, then applying the appropriate `foldl`. This is actually more efficient than using a properly programmed-out recursive algorithm that cannot be tail-call optimized.

scanl(:Goal, +List, +V0, -Values)
scanl(:Goal, +List1, +List2, +V0, -Values)
scanl(:Goal, +List1, +List2, +List3, +V0, -Values)
scanl(:Goal, +List1, +List2, +List3, +List4, +V0, -Values)
  Scan an ensemble of m (0 `<=` m `<=` 4) lists of length n head-to-tail ("scan-left"), using columns of m list elements as arguments for Goal. The `scanl` family of predicates is defined as follows, with V0 an initial value and V the final value of the scanning operation:

      scanl(G, [X_11, ..., X_1n],
               [X_21, ..., X_2n],
               ...,
               [X_m1, ..., X_mn], V0, [V0, V1, ..., Vn] ) :-
         call(G, X_11, ..., X_m1, V0, V1),
         call(G, X_12, ..., X_m2, V1, V2),
         ...
         call(G, X_1n, ..., X_mn, V<n-1>, Vn).

  `scanl` behaves like a `foldl` that collects the sequence of values taken on by the Vx accumulator into a list.