Left Termination of the query pattern gopher_in_2(g, a) w.r.t. the given Prolog program could not be shown:

(0) Obligation:

Clauses:

gopher(nil, nil).
gopher(X, cons(nil, T)) :- ','(no(empty(X)), ','(head(X, nil), tail(X, T))).
gopher(X, Y) :- ','(no(empty(X)), ','(head(X, H), ','(no(empty(H)), ','(head(H, U), ','(tail(H, V), ','(tail(X, W), gopher(cons(U, cons(V, W)), Y))))))).
head([], X1).
head(.(X, X2), X).
tail([], []).
tail(.(X3, X), X).
empty([]).
no(X) :- ','(X, ','(!, failure(a))).
no(X4).
failure(b).

Queries:

gopher(g,a).

(1) CutEliminatorProof (SOUND transformation)

Eliminated all cuts by simply ignoring them[PROLOG].

(2) Obligation:

Clauses:

gopher(nil, nil).
gopher(X, cons(nil, T)) :- ','(no(empty(X)), ','(head(X, nil), tail(X, T))).
gopher(X, Y) :- ','(no(empty(X)), ','(head(X, H), ','(no(empty(H)), ','(head(H, U), ','(tail(H, V), ','(tail(X, W), gopher(cons(U, cons(V, W)), Y))))))).
head([], X1).
head(.(X, X2), X).
tail([], []).
tail(.(X3, X), X).
empty([]).
no(X) :- ','(X, failure(a)).
no(X4).
failure(b).

Queries:

gopher(g,a).