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Nondeterminism has nothing to do with randomness.
Wouldn't it more sense just to call the task something like "nondeterministic choice" and leave it to the implementations to use whatever language feature works best for that? The SICP implenetation uses call/cc and side-effects, but to require a special operator ''amb'' for Prolog, where nondeterminism is in-built, is a bit silly. Python has generators. And it's equally silly in the Haskell example, where ''amb'' just reduces to the identity in the List-Monad. One could emulate the construction in the Continuation-and-State-Monad, but that would be even more silly :-) After all, the article "Replacing failure with a list of successes" was written long after SICP. The List-Monad construction also probably carries over more easily to other languages than call/cc. --[[User:Dirkt|Dirkt]] 02:22, 25 March 2008 (MDT)
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