4 Built-in predicates
Section Index
4.1 Notation of Predicate Descriptions
4.2 Character representation
4.3 Loading Prolog source files
4.3.1 Quick load files
4.4 Listing and Editor Interface
4.5 Verify Type of a Term
4.6 Comparison and Unification or Terms
4.6.1 Standard Order of Terms
4.7 Control Predicates
4.8 Meta-Call Predicates
4.9 ISO compliant Exception handling
4.9.1 Debugging and exceptions
4.9.2 The exception term
4.9.3 Printing messages
4.10 Handling signals
4.10.1 Notes on signal handling
4.11 The `block' control-structure
4.12 DCG Grammar rules
4.13 Database
4.13.1 Update view
4.13.2 Indexing databases
4.14 Declaring predicates properties
4.15 Examining the program
4.16 Input and output
4.16.1 ISO Input and Output Streams
4.16.2 Edinburgh-style I/O
4.16.3 Switching Between Edinburgh and ISO I/O
4.17 Status of streams
4.18 Primitive character I/O
4.19 Term reading and writing
4.20 Analysing and Constructing Terms
4.20.1 Non-logical operations on terms
4.21 Analysing and Constructing Atoms
4.22 Classifying characters
4.22.1 Case conversion
4.23 Representing text in strings
4.24 Operators
4.25 Character Conversion
4.26 Arithmetic
4.27 Arithmetic Functions
4.28 Adding Arithmetic Functions
4.29 Built-in list operations
4.30 Finding all Solutions to a Goal
4.31 Invoking Predicates on all Members of a List
4.32 Forall
4.33 Formatted Write
4.33.1 Writef
4.33.2 Format
4.33.3 Programming Format
4.34 Terminal Control
4.35 Operating System Interaction
4.35.1 Dealing with time and date
4.35.2 Controlling the
PLWIN.EXE
console window
4.36 File System Interaction
4.37 User Toplevel Manipulation
4.38 Creating a Protocol of the User Interaction
4.39 Debugging and Tracing Programs
4.40 Obtaining Runtime Statistics
4.41 Execution profiling
4.41.1 Profiling predicates
4.41.2 Visualizing profiling data
4.41.3 Information gathering
4.41.3.1 Profiling in the Windows Implementation
4.42 Memory Management
4.43 Windows DDE interface
4.43.1 DDE client interface
4.43.2 DDE server mode
4.44 Miscellaneous
