/* $Id: apply_macros.pl,v 1.2 2008-05-15 13:41:46 vsc Exp $ Part of SWI-Prolog Author: Jan Wielemaker E-mail: wielemak@science.uva.nl WWW: http://www.swi-prolog.org Copyright (C): 1985-2007, University of Amsterdam This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA As a special exception, if you link this library with other files, compiled with a Free Software compiler, to produce an executable, this library does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. */ :- module(apply_macros, [ ]). :- use_module(library(lists)). :- use_module(library(occurs)). /** Goal expansion rules to avoid meta-calling This module defines goal_expansion/2 rules to deal with commonly used, but fundamentally slow meta-predicates. Notable maplist/2... defines a useful set of predicates, but its exection is considerable slower than a traditional Prolog loop. Using this library calls to maplist/2... are translated into an call to a generated auxilary predicate that is compiled using compile_aux_clauses/1. Currently this module supports: * maplist/2.. * forall/2 * once/1 * ignore/1 * phrase/2 * phrase/3 @tbd Support more predicates @author Jan Wielemaker */ :- dynamic user:goal_expansion/2. :- multifile user:goal_expansion/2. %% expand_maplist(+Callable, +Lists, -Goal) is det. % % Macro expansion for maplist/2 and higher arity. expand_maplist(Callable0, Lists, Goal) :- ( Callable0 = _:_ -> strip_module(Callable0, M, Callable), NextGoal = M:NextCall ; Callable = Callable0, NextGoal = NextCall ), Callable =.. [Pred|Args], length(Args, Argc), length(Argv, Argc), length(Lists, N), length(Vars, N), MapArity is N + 1, format(atom(AuxName), '__aux_maplist/~d_~w+~d', [MapArity, Pred, Argc]), append(Lists, Args, AuxArgs), Goal =.. [AuxName|AuxArgs], AuxArity is N+Argc, prolog_load_context(module, Module), ( current_predicate(Module:AuxName/AuxArity) -> true ; empty_lists(N, BaseLists), length(Anon, Argc), append(BaseLists, Anon, BaseArgs), BaseClause =.. [AuxName|BaseArgs], heads_and_tails(N, NextArgs, Vars, Tails), append(NextArgs, Argv, AllNextArgs), NextHead =.. [AuxName|AllNextArgs], append(Argv, Vars, PredArgs), NextCall =.. [Pred|PredArgs], append(Tails, Argv, IttArgs), NextIterate =.. [AuxName|IttArgs], NextClause = (NextHead :- NextGoal, NextIterate), ( predicate_property(NextGoal, transparent) -> compile_aux_clauses([ (:- module_transparent(Module:AuxName/AuxArity)), BaseClause, NextClause ]) ; compile_aux_clauses([BaseClause, NextClause]) ) ). empty_lists(0, []) :- !. empty_lists(N, [[]|T]) :- N2 is N - 1, empty_lists(N2, T). heads_and_tails(0, [], [], []). heads_and_tails(N, [[H|T]|L1], [H|L2], [T|L3]) :- N2 is N - 1, heads_and_tails(N2, L1, L2, L3). %% expand_apply(+GoalIn:callable, -GoalOut) is semidet. % % Macro expansion for `apply' predicates. expand_apply(Maplist, Goal) :- functor(Maplist, maplist, N), N >= 2, Maplist =.. [maplist, Callable|Lists], callable(Callable), !, expand_maplist(Callable, Lists, Goal). expand_apply(forall(Cond, Action), \+((Cond, \+(Action)))). expand_apply(once(Goal), (Goal->true)). expand_apply(ignore(Goal), (Goal->true;true)). expand_apply(phrase(NT,Xs), NTXsNil) :- expand_apply(phrase(NT,Xs,[]), NTXsNil). expand_apply(phrase(NT,Xs0,Xs), NewGoal) :- Goal = phrase(NT,Xs0,Xs), nonvar(NT), catch('$translate_rule'((pseudo_nt --> NT), Rule), error(Pat,ImplDep), ( \+ harmless_dcgexception(Pat), throw(error(Pat,ImplDep)) )), Rule = (pseudo_nt(Xs0c,Xsc) :- NewGoal0), Goal \== NewGoal0, \+ contains_illegal_dcgnt(NT), !, % apply translation only if we are safe ( var(Xsc), Xsc \== Xs0c -> Xs = Xsc, NewGoal1 = NewGoal0 ; NewGoal1 = (NewGoal0, Xsc = Xs) ), ( var(Xs0c) -> Xs0 = Xs0c, NewGoal = NewGoal1 ; ( Xs0 = Xs0c, NewGoal1 ) = NewGoal ). harmless_dcgexception(instantiation_error). % ex: phrase(([1],x:X,[3]),L) harmless_dcgexception(type_error(callable,_)). % ex: phrase(27,L) %% contains_illegal_dcgnt(+Term) is semidet. % % True if Term contains a non-terminal we cannot deal with using % goal-expansion. The test is too general approximation, but safe. contains_illegal_dcgnt(NT) :- sub_term(I, NT), nonvar(I), ( I = ! ; I = phrase(_,_,_) ), !. % write(contains_illegal_nt(NT)), % JW: we do not want to write % nl. /******************************* * ACTIVATE * *******************************/ % @tbd Should we only apply if optimization is enabled (-O)? user:goal_expansion(GoalIn, GoalOut) :- \+ current_prolog_flag(xref, true), expand_apply(GoalIn, GoalOut).