<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="../../styles.css" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Logtalk control construct: ::/1</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../styles.css" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div class="navtop"> <a href="../../index.html">contents</a> > <a href="../index.html">reference manual</a> > <a href="../index.html#constructs">control constructs</a> </div> <h2><code>::/1</code></h2> <h4>Description</h4> <blockquote> <pre>::Predicate ::(Predicate1, Predicate2, ...) ::(Predicate1; Predicate2; ...)</pre> <p> Send a message to <a class="glossary" title="Go to glossary definition" href="../../glossary.html#self">self</a>. Only used in the body of a predicate definition. The argument should match a public or protected predicate of <a class="glossary" title="Go to glossary definition" href="../../glossary.html#self">self</a>. It may also match a private predicate if the predicate is within the scope of the object where the method making the call is defined, if imported from a category, if used from inside a category, or when using private inheritance. We can also send a set of messages to self. The "<code>,</code>" and "<code>;</code>" in the list have the usual Prolog meaning. </p> </blockquote> <h4>Template and modes</h4> <blockquote> <pre>::+messages</pre> </blockquote> <h4>Errors</h4> <blockquote> <dl> <dt>Predicate is a variable:</dt> <dd><code>instantiation_error</code></dd> <dt>Predicate is declared private:</dt> <dd><code>permission_error(access, private_predicate, Predicate)</code></dd> <dt>Predicate is not declared:</dt> <dd><code>existence_error(predicate_declaration, Predicate)</code></dd> </dl> </blockquote> <h4>Examples</h4> <blockquote> <pre>area(Area) :- ::width(Width), ::height(Height), Area is Width*Height.</pre> </blockquote> <div class="navbottom"> <a href="to_object2.html">previous</a> | <a href="../../glossary.html">glossary</a> | <a href="to_super1.html">next</a> </div> <div class="copyright"> Copyright © <a href="mailto:pmoura@logtalk.org">Paulo Moura</a> — <a href="http://www.logtalk.org">Logtalk.org</a> </div> <div class="footer"> <p><span class="bleft"><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">XHTML</a> + <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">CSS</a></span><span class="bright">Last updated on: July 7, 2004</span></p> </div> </body> </html>