Re: MSVC for linking etc.

[Daniel Diaz]

Paulo Moura wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 10:42 AM, Jørgen Villadsen wrote:
> 
> > A small question: the dynamic directive takes a single argument, but
> > other Prolog's like YAP seem to require that there are NO parentheses -
> 
> No. Yap supports the ISO standard but also accepts (some) directives
> declared as operators.

If parentheses can be omitted is because some directives are declared as 
operators. So you can
either declare them, e.g.:

:- op(1150,fx,dynamic).
:- dynamic foo/1.

Or use a classical functional notation which should work in every Prolog (and 
adopted by ISO):

:- dynamic(foo/1).

> 
> > I guess the ISO standard requires the parentheses, but would it for
> > compatiblity be possible to allow mission of the parentheses.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> Paulo
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