diff --git a/Logtalk/examples/NOTES b/Logtalk/examples/NOTES new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f9fe0a891 --- /dev/null +++ b/Logtalk/examples/NOTES @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +================================================================= +Logtalk - Object oriented extension to Prolog +Release 2.8.4 + +Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Paulo Moura. All Rights Reserved. +================================================================= + +This folder contains several examples of Logtalk programs. Most of +these examples need objects, protocols and categories that are +defined in the Logtalk standard library or in other examples, so +you should load them first (see the NOTES file inside each example +folder). + +Some examples may redefine objects already loaded from other examples. +You may want to restart Logtalk after trying each example. + +Some of the examples code have been adopted from public available +Prolog code and from known Prolog text books and are copyrighted by +the respective authors. + +These are programming examples, meaning that you should look at the +source files to fully understand them. + +All examples are formatted using four spaces tabs. + + +Here is a short description of each included example: + +birds + bird identification expert system + example adopted from the Adventure in Prolog Amzi! book + +bricks + example of representation and handling of relations using events + +classvars + example of implementation of class variables (as found in Smalltalk) + +inheritance + examples of public, protected and private inheritance with both + prototypes and classes/instances + +instmethods + example of instance defined methods + +lo + examples adopted from the Francis G. McCabe L&O system + +lpa + examples adopted from the LPA Prolog++ system + +metapredicates + example of using metapredicates in Logtalk objects + +mi + multi-inheritance examples + +miscellaneous + unsorted examples + +parametric + simple example of parametric objects + +poem + examples adopted from the Ben Staveley-Taylor POEM system + +points + example adopted from SICStus Objects documentation + +polygons + example of representation and handling of relations using events + +profiling + examples of using of events and monitors to implement profilers + +reflection + example of a simple class-based reflective system + +relations + objects implementing predicates for dealing with relations and + constrained relations between objects + +roots + objects, protocols and categories needed by most of the other examples + +searching + state-space searching frame work + example adopted from Ivan Bratko's "Prolog Programming for Artificial + Intelligence" book + +sicstus + examples adopted from SICStus Objects documentation + +symdiff + example of using parametric objects to implement symbolic expression + differentiation and simplification. + +viewpoints + example on how to implement property and value sharing with prototypes