4 Built-in predicates

• 4.1 Notation of Predicate Descriptions
• 4.2 Character representation
• 4.3 Loading Prolog source files
  • 4.3.1 Loading files, active code and threads
    • 4.3.1.1 Threads and reloading running code
  • 4.3.2 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
  • 4.26.1 Special purpose integer arithmetic
  • 4.26.2 General purpose arithmetic
    • 4.26.2.1 Arithmetic types
    • 4.26.2.2 Rational number examples
    • 4.26.2.3 Arithmetic Functions
• 4.27 Adding Arithmetic Functions
• 4.28 Built-in list operations
• 4.29 Finding all Solutions to a Goal
• 4.30 Invoking Predicates on all Members of a List
• 4.31 Forall
• 4.32 Formatted Write
  • 4.32.1 Writef
  • 4.32.2 Format
  • 4.32.3 Programming Format
• 4.33 Terminal Control
• 4.34 Operating System Interaction
  • 4.34.1 Dealing with time and date
  • 4.34.2 Controlling the PLWIN.EXE console window
• 4.35 File System Interaction
• 4.36 User Top-level Manipulation
• 4.37 Creating a Protocol of the User Interaction
• 4.38 Debugging and Tracing Programs
• 4.39 Obtaining Runtime Statistics
• 4.40 Execution profiling
  • 4.40.1 Profiling predicates
  • 4.40.2 Visualizing profiling data
  • 4.40.3 Information gathering
    • 4.40.3.1 Profiling in the Windows Implementation
• 4.41 Memory Management
• 4.42 Windows DDE interface
  • 4.42.1 DDE client interface
  • 4.42.2 DDE server mode
• 4.43 Miscellaneous