Re: How to read a line of text?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 09-Jan-2004, Ron Stodden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Re 4 below, I have just discovered the neat (swi-prolog) ability to 
> specify a literal character code in the form 0\'z.

Huh?  What's with the backslash?
The ISO Prolog standard way of doing that is just "0'z",
with no backslash, e.g.

        p(0'z).

I just tried your suggested syntax in SWI-Prolog 5.0.8,
and it reported a syntax error, but it accepted the ISO Prolog
syntax just fine.

> Except in editing, where kwrite under Prolog 
> highlighting wrongly takes the ' as the start of a quote.

Use a better editor, or at least a better Prolog mode.  Any good editor
designed for editing Prolog code that supports syntax highlighting should
be able to properly tokenize Prolog.

> Unfortunately, I cannot locate any similar facility in GNU Prolog. 

GNU Prolog supports the ISO Prolog syntax just like SWI Prolog 5.0.8.

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