Re: MSVC for linking etc.

[Vic Bancroft]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jørgen Villadsen wrote:

> Does Yap support the ISO standard in this case - my version 4.2.0 does not 
> accept :-
> dynamic(p/1,q/1). ???

The ISO standard may not be explicit about "convenience" notations, since 
the vanilla conformance suite [1] does not use one.  It has cases such as,

  :- dynamic(foo/1).
  foo(X) :- call(X), call(X).
  foo(X) :- call(X) -> call(X).

In GNU prolog the convenient syntax might be,

  :- dynamic( [ p/1, q/1 ] ).

Though, even a crusty GNU Prolog 1.2.8 will also allow,

  :- dynamic(  p/1, q/1 ).

However in an attempt to make code that consults under either flavor, you
might have troubles.  Since at least according to the documentation [2],
it would appear that in Yap4.3, dynamic has lost the parens,

<blockquote>

  dynamic +P 

    Declares predicate P or list of predicates [P1,...,Pn] as a dynamic 
    predicate. P must be written in form: name/arity. 

      
      :- dynamic god/1.

    a more convenient form can be used: 

      :- dynamic son/3, father/2, mother/2.

    or, equivalently, 
      
      :- dynamic [son/3, father/2, mother/2].

</blockquote> 

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[1] http://www.sju.edu/~jhodgson/pub/suite.tar.gz
[2] http://www.cos.ufrj.br/~vitor/Yap/Yap4.3/yap.html