Overview

This folder contains libraries of useful objects, categories, and protocols. Specific notes about individual libraries can be found in the corresponding library directory NOTES.md files.

A plain Prolog version of the Unicode 6.2 standard is also included in the unicode_data folder. See its README.md file for details.

A parallel_logtalk_processes_setup.pl Prolog file is also provided with sample code for selected backend Prolog compilers for initializing Logtalk processes such that each process uses a unique scratch directory therefore allowing parallel process execution (e.g. for usage at continuous integration servers). Starting with Logtalk 3.48.0, this setup is only required in general when running with the clean flag turned off. See the comments in the file itself for usage instructions.

Library documentation

Specific notes about each library can be found in the corresponding NOTES.md files. HTML documentation for each library API can be found on the docs directory (open the ../docs/index.html file with your web browser). The documentation for these libraries can be regenerated using the shell scripts ../scripts/update_html_docs.sh and ../scripts/update_svg_diagrams.sh.

Loading libraries

All the individual libraries can be loaded using the <library name>(loader) notation as argument for the compiling and loading predicates. For example:

::

| ?- logtalk_load(random(loader)).

There is also a file named all_loader.lgt that will load all libraries. Simply type the goal:

::

| ?- logtalk_load(library(all_loader)).

As a general rule, always use the corresponding loader file to load a library. Most library entities are part of small hierarchies or depend on other libraries and thus cannot be loaded and compiled separately (e.g. the list object implements the listp protocol and is part of a basic types hierarchy). Using the loader files takes care of all dependencies and also ensures compilation in optimized mode.

Testing libraries

Most of the libraries include unit tests in their directory, together with a tester.lgt file for running them. For example, to run the tests for the random library, we can use the goal:

::

| ?- logtalk_load(random(tester)).

To run all libraries tests, we can use the logtalk_tester automation script from the library directory at the root of the Logtalk distribution. For example, assuming the Logtalk user directory is ~/logtalk and that we want to run the tests using ECLiPSe as the backend Prolog compiler:

::

$ cd ~/logtalk/library $ logtalk_tester -p eclipse

Credits

Some code in this library is based on public domain Prolog code, in particular, code adopted from the Edinburgh Prolog library. The definition of predicate reverse/2 in object list is from Richard O'Keefe and can be found in its book "The Craft of Prolog".

Some elements of this library are inspired by Richard O'Keefe library proposal available at:

http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/ok/pllib.htm

Some libraries, or part of libraries, are either ports of Prolog system libraries or inspired by Prolog system libraries. See the individual library notes for details. See also the NOTICE.txt file at the root of the Logtalk distribution for copyright information on third-party source code.

Other notes

Some files contained in this directory represent work in progress and are not loaded by default by any loader utility file.