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Logtalk - Object oriented extension to Prolog
Release 2.9.3
Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Paulo Moura. All Rights Reserved.
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RELEASE NOTES
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2.9.3 - February 9, 2002
New current_logtalk_flag/2 and set_logtalk_flag/2 built-in predicates.
Updated documentation on new built-in predicates.
Renamed SWI-Prolog config file swi330.config to swi.config.
Renamed config file predicate lgt_default_compiler_option/2 to lgt_flag/2.
New XSL stylesheets and shell scripts to convert Logtalk XML entity
documenting files to PDF format using XSL Formating Objects.
2.9.2 - January 4, 2002
The Logtalk compiler can now print a warning when compiling source files
that use non-ISO defined built-in predicates using a new portability/1
compiler option. Updated the relevant sections of the user manual and the
errors example.
Corrected a compiler bug where the entity relation tables only recorded
the last entry per entity relation type.
Updated config file for CIAO 1.7#162.
2.9.1 - December 5, 2001
Logtalk compiler now prints a warning when redefining or replacing an
existing entity.
Corrected a compiler bug in the error checking code for the info/1
and info/2 directives.
Changed the order of object loading in the "mi" example to avoid
suporious warning messages.
Added a new problem ("bridge") to the "searching" example. Improved
"performance" monitor to give correct reports on alternative solutions.
Corrected a bug in the "water jug" state space example.
2.9.0 - October 22, 2001
Added config files for CIAO Prolog 1.7p115 and B-Prolog 6.0.
Compiling and loading an entity that contains references to unknown
entities (by default) prints a warning. Updated user and reference
manuals.
Rewrited all the compiler warning/error code and output messages.
Changed compiled code functors postfixes from "_sdcl" and "_sdef" to
"_idcl" and "_idef" (implies recompilation of all objects, protocols,
and categories).
Changed all occurrences and references to the term "entity_scope" to
"scope".
Removed some redundant productions from the Logtalk grammar.
Updated documentation on the xml directory. Renamed some of the .xsl
files. Added sample scripts to batch convert .xml files to .html files.
Added a new loader utility file, all.loader, to load all library files
loaded by the other loader files.
Started work on documenting the Logtalk pre-processor/compiler source
file.
New "errors" example. Updated the "inheritance" example.
2.8.4 - March 9, 2001
Updated config files for BinProlog 8.0, K-Prolog 5.01, XSB 2.3, and
Amzi! Prolog 4.103~5.0.
New config file for Amzi! Prolog 6.1 beta.
Corrected an incomplete entity definition in the Logtalk XML DTD.
Rewrite the Logtalk XSLT files for improved compatibility with XSLT
processors regarding handling of whitespace.
A first cut of a XML Schema for the Logtalk XML documentation files
(file xml/logtalk.xsd).
Small improvements to the documentation.
2.8.3 - November 21, 2000
Corrected a bug where sending a message for a built-in method to an
unknown object fails instead of generating the expected exception.
Put some ocorrences of atoms public, mode, and type between ()'s to
avoid compilation errors in BinProlog 8.0 and other Prolog compilers
that declare these atoms as operators.
Corrected the definition of the state space of the "Missionaires and
Cannibals" problem in the "searching" example that resulted in some
wrong solutions.
2.8.2 - November 5, 2000
New .xsl file to convert .xml files to TeXML files.
Fixed a problem with explicit compilation options being correctly parsed
but not processed.
Corrected a bug regarding default init options definition for the
points, polygons, and bricks examples. Updated category initialization
in roots example.
2.8.1 - October 28, 2000
New config file for K-Prolog 5.0.
Improved compiler error detection and reporting of invalid directives
and clauses.
Corrected a problem with some Prolog compilers where compiling a file
containing syntax errors may not close the file after the errors are
reported.
Many small improvements to all documentation.
Small improvements to the .xsl files and to the output of .xml files.
2.8.0 - October 1, 2000
I have found just a few days ago that I have uploaded to the Logtalk web
server a development version of Logtalk 2.7.0 instead of the final one!
To avoid confusions I decided to release a new version.
Changed implementation of the logtalk_compile/1-2 and logtalk_load/1-2
predicates to only accept a list of entities instead of either an entity
or a list of entities, simplifying and improving the performance of these
predicates. Improved error reporting for the logtalk_compile/1 and
logtalk_load/1 predicates. Updated relevant sessions in the user and
reference manuals.
Simplified the implementation of the following predicates, by sharing
the error checking code with the corresponding extended versions:
implements_protocol/2, imports_category/2, instantiates_class/2,
specializes_class/2, extends_protocol/2, and extends_object/2.
Completed some missing library file dependencies documentation in some
examples.
New version of the QUICK_START help file. Updated tutorial.
2.7.0 - August 24, 2000
First release of the Logtalk standard library of objects, protocols and
categories.
Rewritten all examples to use the new Logtalk standard library.
New logtalk_load/2 and logtalk_compile/2 Logtalk built-in predicates,
accepting a list of compiler options. See the User and Reference Manuals
for details.
New XSLT file for viewing .xml files in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
for Windows after installing the latest Microsoft XML Parser Preview
Release. Small improvements in all XSLT files.
Starting with this version all config files need to provide a definition
for the compare/3 predicate if it is not built-in in the corresponding
Prolog compiler. Also, default Logtalk compiler options are now also set
in the config files using the lgt_default_compiler_option/2 predicate.
Updated config file for CIAO 1.6p1. See the configs/NOTES file for
details.
2.6.2 - July 4, 2000
Improved performance and error checking for the built-in predicates
create_object/4, create_protocol/3 and create_category/4.
Updated config file for BinProlog 7.83.
Many small updates to all documentation.
New PDF versions of the documentation formated for printing (with page
numbers, table of contents and index)are now available in both A4 and
US letter formats.
2.6.1 - May 5, 2000
Modified the structure of the automatically generated XML documenting
files to improve XSL translation performance. Added a new, more standard
compliant, XSL file to generate HTML files and renamed the old one to
ie5.xsl. See the xml/NOTES file for details. Corrected an error in the
logtalk.css CSS file.
Modified the definitions of predicates lgt_file_extension/2 and
lgt_file_name/2 in all config files.
Updated all the user manual sessions related to automatic documentation.
Updated all HTML documentation for future XHTML 1.0 conformance.
Start adding documenting directives to most examples.
2.6.0 - April 27, 2000
Added support for documentation of objects, protocols, and categories,
using automatic generation of XML files.
Added info/1 and info/2 directives for documenting objects, protocols,
categories, and predicates. Added definition of documentation file name
extension and default file names for the DTD and XSL files to the config
files.
Improved error checking for the built-in predicates create_object/4,
create_protocol/3 and create_category/4 to also detect invalid entity
identifiers.
Updated the user and reference manuals to describe the new automatic
documenting features.
Updated all HTML documentation to conform to HTML 4.01 strict standard.
Corrected some wrong cross-reference links and titles in the reference
and user manuals HTML pages.
PDF versions of the manuals and tutorial are now available in both A4
and US letter formats.
Corrected two errors in the searching example, one in the definition of
the farmer problem state space and the other when backtracking over
performance reports.
2.5.2 - March 7, 2000
Updated manuals to clarify some limitations of declaring and defining
dynamic predicates inside categories and documented a way of using the
built-in local method this/1 to access object parameters.
Removed references to parametric categories from the Logtalk
documentation (at runtime we can only access object parameters,
not category parameters).
Corrected two wrong declarations of built-in methods (forall/2 and
retractall/1) in the Logtalk pre-processor.
Corrected bug where predicates declared in dynamic entities may have
a "static" instead of a "dynamic" property.
Corrected a bug in category compilation that prevented a dynamic category
from being abolished. Speedup predicate definition lookups for categories.
2.5.1 - February 18, 2000
Two new examples: birds, a bird identification expert system adopted
(with permission) from an Amzi example, and viewpoints, a set of
prototypes showing how to do property sharing and value sharing in
Logtalk.
Renamed config file yap421.config to yap430.config to match the name of
the new YAP 4.3.0 public release (named 4.2.1 while on beta testing).
Partial config file for Trinc Prolog R3.
2.5.0 - December 29, 1999
The Logtalk pre-processor now accepts arbitrary clauses and directives
to appear in a file before an opening entity directive. The clauses and
directives are added unchanged to the compiled file.
Improved performance for all kinds of message sending.
Two new examples: reflection, showing how to implement a simple
class-based reflective system, and symdiff, showing how to use
parametric objects to implement symbolic expression differentiation
and simplification.
Updated config file for the beta 8 release of SWI-Prolog 3.3.0.
2.4.0 - December 1, 1999
Logtalk is now an Open Source project, available under Perl's Artistic
license.
Two new examples: instmethods, ilustrating the use of instance defined
methods, and classvars, showing how to implement class variables.
Updated Logtalk grammar to explicitly allow for user-defined types
in mode/2 directives.
New config files for SWI-Prolog 3.3.0, SICStus Prolog 3.8 and CIAO
Prolog 1.4p0 (incomplete).
Updated config file for B-Prolog 4.0.
Updated config file for GNU Prolog to use the new call_with_args()
built-in predicate added in version 1.1.0.
Updated config file for YAP Prolog to use the new call_with_args()
built-in predicate added in version 4.2.1.
2.3.1 - September 22, 1999
Logtalk pre-processor updated to only report one warning per redefined
Logtalk or Prolog built-in predicate.
Changed some occurrences of atom "public" to "(public)" in
compiler/logtalk.pl file to avoid syntax errors in Prolog compilers
(like BinProlog) that define "public" as an operator. Also put some
terms between ()'s to avoid syntax errors with ALS Prolog 3.1
Update config file for ALS Prolog to work with version 3.1.
Updated configs/NOTES file include a workaround to use Logtalk with
XSB 2.0, some guidelines on how to write loader utility files for
BinProlog 7.50, and a bug in ALS Prolog 3.1 that affects Logtalk.
2.3.0 - September 12, 1999
Metapredicate information is now stored with the other predicate
properties, instead of being discarded after compiling the clauses of
a metapredicate. Added predicate property metapredicate/1. It is now
possible to assert clauses for dynamic metapredicates.
Corrected a bug in the processing of metacalls in pseudo-object user.
Corrected a bug in the implementation of private inheritance.
Improved performance of protected inheritance.
Corrected failure of processing initialization/1 and op/3 directives in
create_object/4, create_category/4 and create_protocol/3 built-in
predicates.
Corrected a bug when calling private static category predicates from
importing objects. Simplified code generated for categories.
Rewrite code for the built-in method current_predicate/1 to avoid
duplicated or wrong results when overriding predicate declarations
and to ensure that all possible argument type errors are detected.
Changed compilation of classes that do not instantiate any (meta)class
in order to throw the correct exception when a message is sent to them.
Changed compilation of root objects (that do not instantiate, specialize
or extend other objects) so that calls to "super" (^^/1) fail (as they
should) instead of generating a "predicate does not exist" error message.
Changed implementation of "super" calls (^^/1) to avoid a potential
endless loop problem when using these calls from the inheritance root
object of a reflexive class-based systems.
Pre-processor now checks for callable and object identifier errors.
Runtime now checks for non-instantiated messages.
Added new example (inheritance) about public, protected and private
inheritance.
Updated metapredicates, lo, kernel, and types examples. Most of the
code in the last two examples is being updated to form the basis of an
upcoming Logtalk standard library.
Small changes in the pre-processor/runtime code for compatibility with
ECLiPSe 4.2.2. Updated config files for this Prolog compiler.
Rewrite some predicates in the config files for SWI-Prolog and LPA
Mac & WIN Prologs for improved performance.
New tutorial session about events and monitors.
Updated documentation to match the changes made in this version.
2.2.0 - July 10, 1999
Implemented public, protected and private object inheritance, protocol
implementation and category importation.
New Logtalk built-in predicates instantiates_class/3, extends_object/3,
extends_protocol/3, specializes_class/3, imports_category/3 and
implements_protocol/3. The third argument returns the relation scope.
Pre-processor now checks most directive errors.
Changed ^^/1 (super call) implementation to only allow the use of a
single predicate call for argument and to retain the original sender
of the message (see the updated sicstus example).
Fixed bug that prevented directives with a variable number of arguments
(like dynamic(), public(), uses(), ...) being recognized.
Changed definition of predicate read_term/3 in the configs files of Amzi!,
Aquarius, Arity, Eclipse, IC, K, LPA Mac&WIN, Master and XSB to always
instantiates the singleton variables list to the empty list. Needed to
prevent backtracking problems in logtalk_load/1 and logtalk_compile/1
predicates.
Removed choice-point in processing metacalls in predicate definitions.
A banner with the Logtalk version is printed after loading the runtime/
pre-processor.
Removed variables example. The category attributes is now part of the
kernel example. Corrected some warmless syntax errors in directives in
kernel/attributes.lgt, kernel/monitor.lgt and miscellaneous/queens.lgt.
Changed name of blocks example to bricks and object "block" to "brick"
in order to avoid problems with some Prolog compilers that use the atom
"block" for operators or built-in predicates.
2.1.0 - May 11, 1999
Fixed some bugs in the definition of the pseudo-object user when sending
the message predicate_property/2.
Renamed config file for Calypso to GNU Prolog.
New config file for LPA WinProlog 4.0.
Corrected the omission in the documentation of the Logtalk grammar of the
built_in entity property.
New tutorial pages about building reflective class-based systems.
Modified pre-processor to compile throw/1 as a control structure to
ensure compatibility with the GNU-Prolog compiler.
Modified pre-processor to ensure compatibility with Prolog compilers that
use immediate update semantics instead of the ISO logical database update.
Improved simplification of compiled object and category clauses.
Rewrite and clean up pre-processor code for better compiler performance.
Several updates to the examples files.
Changed all example loader files to wrap the call to logtalk_load/1 inside
an initialization/1 directive for ISO standard compliance.
2.0 GM - February 9, 1999
Removed some redundant choice-points that are being created when
compiling Logtalk entities.
Small compilation speed optimizations.
Logtalk compiled files now contain the declarations for the message
sending operators to ensure compatibility with some Prolog compilers.
Changed the way Logtalk pre-processor writes directives to ensure
compatibility with some Prolog compilers. Corrected a bug in the
processing of the op/3 directive.
Updated PrologII+ config file for version 4.5.
Changed the definitions of catch/3 and throw/1 in the config files for
LPA Prolog compilers.
New config file for MasterProlog 4.1; removed config file for the
old BIM Prolog 4.0.
Corrected an error in the config file for OpenProlog in the definiton
of the write_term/3 predicate.
Added a safer definition for write_term/3 predicate in the config
files for Amzi, Aquarius, Arity, Eclipse, IC, K, LPA Mac, LPA Win,
and XSB Prolog compilers.
Added a QUICK_START file.
2.0 Beta 3 - February 1, 1999
Closed some encapsulation holes in the implementation of super calls.
Changed Logtalk pre-processor to use write_term/3 instead of write/2 and
writeq/2 to workaround some compatibility problems with some Prolog
compilers.
Changed mode operators priority and type to be compatible with the ISO
standard.
Modified definition of predicate read_term/3 in the config file for Amzi
compiler to return the atom end_of_file instead of '!EOF' at the end of
a file (this prevented Logtalk to complete compilation any file under
this compiler). Improved detection of built-in predicates while compiling.
Removed config file for wamcc. This compiler have been replaced by
Calypso (developed by the same author).
Updated K-Prolog config file for version 4.50.
Improved documentation of template config file.
Added SCRIPT files to the kernel and types examples.
Updated Tutorial and User and Reference Manuals.
New end user license.
2.0 Beta 2 - November 16, 1998
Built-ins logtalk_compile/1 and logtalk_load/1 updated to match
the documentation regarding thrown errors and to accept a list of
entities to compile/load.
Modified the examples loader utility files to make only a call to
logtalk_load/1 by using a list of entities. This should make it easy to
modify these files for compilers that don't support arbritrary queries
in a file.
Logtalk runtime no longer tries to catch some of the errors thrown
by ::/2.
Added to all config files a Logtalk predicate to check if a file
exists in the current working directory (used by the logtalk_load/1
and logtalk_compile/1 Logtalk built-in predicates).
New configs files for the K-Prolog 4.14 and Calypso 1.0b6 Prolog
compilers.
Completed the config file for Open Prolog 1.03d38 (with the exception
of lgt_current_date/3 that still have a dummy definition).
Added a missing definition for Logtalk predicate forall/2 to the config
file for Prolog II+ 4.4.
Modified Logtalk pre-processor/runtime to avoid syntax errors when
running on Open Prolog or Calypso and to remove some redundant
choice-points that are being created when compiling categories and
protocols.
Modified some examples that use operators to avoid syntax errors in
some Prolog compilers.
Modified the implementation of the built-in method
predicate_property/2 to avoid duplicate answers and to throw an
instantiation error if the first argument is not bound.
Modified definition of the pseudo-object user to hide Logtalk pre-
processor predicates from the current_predicate/1 built-in method and
to ensure that the predicate_property/2 built-in method returns
Logtalk defined predicate properties for built-in Logtalk and Prolog
predicates.
Modified Prolog code generated by the pre-processor to further minimize
possible conflicts with user defined predicates.
Added a lgt_predicate_property/2 predicate to the config files to
improve Logtalk portability.
Updated Tutorial and User and Reference Manuals.
2.0 Beta 1 - October 18, 1998
Added basic support for implementation multi-inheritance.
Logtalk pre-processor updated to try to detect misspelt local
predicate calls.
First public beta.
2.0 Alpha 1 - July, 1998
First release for registered users.
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