Availability:built-in
not_less_than_zero
if called with a negative integer. E.g. succ(X, 0)
fails
silently and succ(X, -1)
raises a domain error.121The
behaviour to deal with natural numbers only was defined by Richard
O'Keefe to support the common count-down-to-zero in a natural way. Up to
5.1.8, succ/2
also accepted negative integers.