Re: Settings etc. (Re: consult/1 overrides dynamic predicate declarations?)

[Erick Alphonse]

Hi,

> > Anyway, my user-supplied file is less and less readable and declarative.
> > I thought about asking the user to set things this way:
> > :- set(beamsize,5).
>
>
> I would go for just a simple
> set(beamsize,5).

OK. but I would like the user to be able to enter/modify the settings 
from the top-level too, hence the call in the setting file.

> > Does someone have a solution for using a nice setting file (the user can
> > do whatever he wants in this file, in addition of providing some setting
> > values)?
>
>
> Why not write a simple loop in your program, reading terms from the file?
> That's how I implement data files. For simple facts, you just assertz()
> the term you get from the file.
>
> If you want to allow user-defined predicates or something, you may have to
> inspect the term more closely before acting on it (if read() understands
> the :- at all, I don't know).

yes, it does. but I don't know how to handle directive predicates. The 
best would be to just do consult/1.

Timo, you should better do like me, like that we'd be two to be bothered 
:-).

Cheers,
Erick.