/* $Id$ Part of SWI-Prolog Author: Jan Wielemaker E-mail: J.Wielemaker@vu.nl WWW: http://www.swi-prolog.org Copyright (C): 1985-2011, University of Amsterdam VU University Amsterdam This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA As a special exception, if you link this library with other files, compiled with a Free Software compiler, to produce an executable, this library does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. */ :- module(edinburgh, [ display/1, display/2, unknown/2, reconsult/1, debug/0, nodebug/0, fileerrors/2 ]). :- meta_predicate unknown(:, :), reconsult(:). /** Some traditional Edinburgh predicates This module defines predicates from `traditional Edinburgh Prolog' (Dec10 and C-Prolog) whose functionality has been replaced by (ISO) Standard Prolog. */ /******************************* * TERM I/O * *******************************/ %% display(+Term) is det. %% display(+Stream, +Term) is det. % % Write a term, ignoring operators. % % @deprecated New code must use write_term/3 using the option % ignore_ops(true). display(Term) :- write_term(Term, [ignore_ops(true)]). display(Stream, Term) :- write_term(Stream, Term, [ignore_ops(true)]). %% unknown(-Old, +New) is det. % % Edinburgh Prolog predicate for dealing dealing with undefined % procedures unknown(M:Old, M:New) :- current_prolog_flag(M:unknown, O), map_unknown(O, Old), map_unknown(N, New), !, set_prolog_flag(M:unknown, N). map_unknown(error, trace). map_unknown(warning, trace). map_unknown(fail, fail). %% reconsult(+FileOrList) is det. % % Load source file(s), wiping the old content first. SWI-Prolog's % consult/1 and related predicates always do this. % % @deprecated The Edinburgh Prolog consult/reconsult distinction % is no longer used throughout most of the Prolog world. reconsult(File) :- consult(File). %% debug is det. %% nodebug is det. % % Switch on/off debug mode. Note that nodebug/0 has been defined % such that is is not traced itself. debug :- set_prolog_flag(debug, true). nodebug :- notrace, set_prolog_flag(debug, false). :- '$hide'(nodebug/0). %% fileerrors(-Old, +New) is det. % % Query and change the fileerrors flag. Default it is set to % =true=, causing file operations to raise an exception. Setting % it to =false= activates the old Edinburgh mode of silent % failure. % % @deprecated New code should use catch/3 to handle file errors % silently fileerrors(Old, New) :- current_prolog_flag(fileerrors, Old), ( Old == New -> true ; set_prolog_flag(fileerrors, New) ).