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								Logtalk - Open source object-oriented logic programming language
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								Release 2.30.7
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								Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Paulo Moura.  All Rights Reserved.
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								% start by loading the example:
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								| ?- logtalk_load(dynpred(loader)).
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								...
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								% sending to descendant the message p/1, returns the definition in root:
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								| ?- descendant::p(Value).
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								Value = root
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								% asserting a local definition for p/1 in descendant overrides the inherited 
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								% definition:
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								| ?- descendant::(assertz(p(descendant)), p(Value)).
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								Value = descendant
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								% if we retract the local definition, again the definition inherited from root
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								% will be used:
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								| ?- descendant::(retractall(p(_)), p(Value)).
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								Value = root
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								% class does not understand the message p1/1 (the predicate is declared only 
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								% for the class descendant instances):
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								| ?- class::p1(X).
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								error(existence_error(predicate_declaration, p1(_)), class::p1(_), user)
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								% the same message is valid for the class instances:
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								| ?- instance::p1(X).
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								X = class
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								% if we assert a clause for a new predicate, p2/1, in the class
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								% (a side-effect being a dynamic declaration of the predicate):
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								| ?- class::assertz(p2(class)).
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								% the new predicate, like p1/1, is not available for the class:
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								| ?- class::p2(Value).
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								error(existence_error(predicate_declaration, p2(_)), class::p2(_), user)
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								% but is available for the class instances, the same way as p1/1:
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								| ?- instance::p2(X).
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								X = class
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								% using a prototype, assert three new predicates (the method object_assert/0 
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								% asserts the predicate public_predicate/0 from outside the prototype; the 
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								% method self_assert/0 asserts the predicate protected_predicate/0 in self; 
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								% the method this_assert/0 asserts the predicate private_predicate/0 in this):
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								| ?- prototype::(object_assert, self_assert, this_assert).
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								% and check the resulting scope of each predicate:
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								| ?- prototype::dynamic_predicates.
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								public_predicate/0 - public
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								protected_predicate/0 - protected
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								private_predicate/0 - private
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