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This folder contains an example that shows how to use a complementing category to replace a broken predicate definition and to add a new imported category to an existing object (without modifying its source code), thus providing hot patching functionality similar to Objective-C categories.

The complemented objects must be compiled with the flag complements set to allow (its default value is usually deny). This solution was adapted to improve performance of applications that don't make use complementing categories and to provide a solution for preventing the use of categories to break object encapsulation. Note that the complements flag can be set on a per-object basis by using the set_logtalk_flag/2 directive.