[Contents]
[Index]
[Summary]
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 SWI-Prolog
1.2 Status
1.3 Should you be Using SWI-Prolog?
1.4 The XPCE GUI system for Prolog
1.5 Version 1.5 Release Notes
1.6 Version 1.6 Release Notes
1.7 Version 1.7 Release Notes
1.8 Version 1.8 Release Notes
1.9 Version 1.9 Release Notes
1.10 Version 2.0 Release Notes
1.11 Version 2.1 Release Notes
1.12 Version 2.5 Release Notes
1.13 Version 2.6 Release Notes
1.14 Version 2.7 Release Notes
1.15 Acknowledgements
2 Overview
2.1 Starting SWI-Prolog from the Unix Shell
2.1.1 Command Line Options
2.2 GNU Emacs Interface
2.3 Online Help
2.4 Query Substitutions
2.4.1 Limitations of the History System
2.5 Reuse of toplevel bindings
2.6 Overview of the Debugger
2.7 Compilation
2.8 Environment Control
2.9 Saved States
2.9.1 Types of Saved States and Portability
2.9.2 Save Predicates
2.10 Automatic loading of libraries
2.10.1 Notes on Automatic Loading
2.11 Garbage Collection
2.12 Syntax Notes
2.12.1 ISO Syntax Support
2.12.1.1 Character Escape Syntax
2.12.1.2 Syntax for Non-Decimal Numbers
2.13 System Limits
2.13.1 Limits on Memory Areas
2.13.2 Other Limits
2.13.3 Reserved Names
3 Built-In Predicates
3.1 Notation of Predicate Descriptions
3.2 Consulting Prolog Source files
3.2.1 Quick Load Files
3.3 Listing Predicates and Editor Interface
3.4 Verify Type of a Term
3.5 Comparison and Unification or Terms
3.5.1 Standard Order of Terms
3.6 Control Predicates
3.7 Meta-Call Predicates
3.8 Advanced control-structures: blocks
3.9 Grammar rule interface (phrase)
3.10 Database
3.10.1 Indexing databases
3.11 Declaring Properties of Predicates
3.12 Examining the Program
3.13 Input and Output
3.13.1 Input and Output Using Implicit Source and Destination
3.13.2 Explicit Input and Output Streams
3.13.3 Switching Between Implicit and Explicit I/O
3.14 Status of Input and Output Streams
3.15 Primitive Character Input and Output
3.16 Term Reading and Writing
3.17 Analysing and Constructing Terms
3.18 Analysing and Constructing Atoms
3.19 Representing Text in Strings
3.20 Operators
3.21 Arithmetic
3.22 Arithmetic Functions
3.23 Adding Arithmetic Functions
3.24 List Manipulation
3.25 Set Manipulation
3.26 Sorting Lists
3.27 Finding all Solutions to a Goal
3.28 Invoking Predicates on all Members of a List
3.29 Forall
3.30 Formatted Write
3.30.1 Writef
3.30.2 Format
3.30.3 Programming Format
3.31 Terminal Control
3.32 Operating System Interaction
3.33 File System Interaction
3.34 User Toplevel Manipulation
3.35 Creating a Protocol of the User Interaction
3.36 Debugging and Tracing Programs
3.37 Obtaining Runtime Statistics
3.38 Finding Performance Bottlenecks
3.39 Memory Management
3.40 Windows DDE interface
3.40.1 DDE client interface
3.40.2 DDE server mode
3.41 Miscellaneous
4 Using Modules
4.1 Why Using Modules?
4.2 Name-based versus Predicate-based Modules
4.3 Defining a Module
4.4 Importing Predicates into a Module
4.4.1 Reserved Modules
4.5 Using the Module System
4.5.1 Object Oriented Programming
4.6 Meta-Predicates in Modules
4.6.1 Definition and Context Module
4.6.2 Overruling Module Boundaries
4.7 Dynamic Modules
4.8 Module Handling Predicates
4.9 Compatibility of the Module System
4.9.1 Emulating
meta_predicate/1
5 Foreign Language Interface
5.1 Overview of the Interface
5.2 Linking Foreign Modules
5.2.1 What linking is provided?
5.2.2 What kind of loading should I be using?
5.3 Dynamic Linking of shared libraries
5.4 Using the library shlib for
.DLL
and
.so
files
5.4.1 Static Linking
5.4.2 Dynamic Linking based on
load_foreign/[2,5]
5.5 Interface Data types
5.5.1 Type
term_t
: a reference to a Prolog term
5.5.1.1 Interaction with the garbage collector and stack-shifter
5.5.2 Other foreign interface types
5.6 The Foreign Include File
5.6.1 Argument Passing and Control
5.6.1.1 Non-deterministic Foreign Predicates
5.6.2 Atoms and functors
5.6.3 Analysing Terms via the Foreign Interface
5.6.3.1 Testing the type of a term
5.6.3.2 Reading data from a term
5.6.3.3 Reading a list
5.6.3.4 An example: defining
display/1
in C
5.6.4 Constructing Terms
5.6.5 Unifying data
5.6.6 Calling Prolog from C
5.6.6.1 Predicate references
5.6.6.2 Initiating a query from C
5.6.7 Discarding Data
5.6.8 Foreign Code and Modules
5.6.9 Miscellaneous
5.6.10 Catching Signals (Software Interrupts)
5.6.11 Errors and warnings
5.6.12 Environment Control from Foreign Code
5.6.13 Querying Prolog
5.6.14 Registering Foreign Predicates
5.6.15 Foreign Code Hooks
5.6.16 Embedding SWI-Prolog in a C-program
5.7 Linking embedded applications using plld
5.7.1 A simple example
5.8 Example of Using the Foreign Interface
5.9 Notes on Using Foreign Code
5.9.1 Memory Allocation
5.9.2 Debugging Foreign Code
5.9.3 Name Conflicts in C modules
5.9.4 Compatibility of the Foreign Interface
6 Generating Runtime Applications
6.1 Limitations of qsave_program
6.2 Runtimes and Foreign Code
6.3 Finding Application files
6.4 Using chpl for Configuration Information
6.4.1 Changing the emulator of a runtime application
6.4.2 Passing a path to the application
6.5 The Runtime Environment
6.5.1 The Runtime Emulator
A Hackers corner
A.1 Examining the Environment Stack
A.2 Intercepting the Tracer
A.3 Exception Handling
A.4 Readline Interaction
B Summary
B.1 Predicates
B.2 Arithmetic Functions
B.3 Operators
C Bibliography