Counting definite clause grammar recursions in Prolog

I have the following Prolog definite clause grammar:

s-->[a],s,[b].
s-->[].

This will result in words like [a,a,b,b] being accepted in opposite to words like [a,b,a,b]. To put it in a nutshell the grammar is obviously a^n b^n. Now I want to 开发者_如何学Pythonreturn n to the user. How can I calculate n?

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s(X)-->[a],s(Y),[b],{X is Y+1}.
s(0)-->[].

One needs to give parameters to the DCG non terminals. Please take care equality doesn't work exactly like assignment of imperative programming languages so X is Y + 1 was used.

Some sample outputs:

s(X,[a,b,b,b],[]).
false.

s(X,[a,a,a,b,b,b],[]).
X = 3 ;
false.

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s(N, M) --> [a], {N1 is N + 1}, s(N1, M), [b].
s(N, N) --> [].
s(N) --> s(0, N).

Usage:

?- phrase(s(N), [a,a,a,b,b,b]).
N = 3

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The answers by @thequark and by @LittleBobbyTables work fine when used with ground strings.

But what if they are not bounded in length, like in the following queries?

?- phrase(s(3),_).               % expected: success   
%                                  observed: no answer(s)

?- phrase(s(-10),_).             % expected: failure
%                                  observed: no answer(s)

We surely want queries like the one above to terminate universally! Let's use clpfd and write:

:- use_module(library(clpfd)).

s(0) --> [].
s(N) --> {N#>0,N#=N0+1},[a],s(N0),[b].

Sample queries:

?- phrase(s(N),[a,a,a,a,b,b,b,b]).
N = 4 ;                          % works like in the other answers
false.

?- phrase(s(3),Xs).
Xs = [a,a,a,b,b,b] ;             % now, this works too!
false.                           % (terminates universally)

?- phrase(s(-10),_).             % fails, like it should
false.