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More on I/O, effects and logic programming

I've been having some talks on #prolog about the best way to implement effects in logic programming languages and have come across some really good information, due in large part to "ski" who hangs out on #prolog. There seem to be quite a few ways to implement effects for I/O. I'm not sure exactly at this point how many of them will be appropriate to implementing non-monotonic logic, by which I mean allowing the data store to grow/shrink. Apparently the Monad strategy can move into the logic programming scene without too much difficulty. There are even a few papers about using monads in lambda-prolog that I've come across lately. This method has a lot going for it, as it seems to have worked fairly well in haskell and clean. Another way is using linearity. This has a lot of appeal since linear logic has a well understood declarative semantics and it doesn't force us to use higher order constructs in order to achieve I/O. I'm not sure how this wo