There are two implementations of abort/0.
The default one uses the exception mechanism (see throw/1),
throwing the exception
$aborted. The other one uses the C-construct longjmp() to
discard the entire environment and rebuild a new one. Using exceptions
allows for proper recovery of predicates exploiting exceptions.
Rebuilding the environment is safer if the Prolog stacks are corrupt.
Therefore the system will use the rebuild-strategy if the abort was
generated by an internal consistency check and the exception mechanism
otherwise. Prolog can be forced to use the rebuild-strategy setting the
prolog flag abort_with_exception to false.
halt(0).bugIn
the multi-threaded version, halt/0
does not work when not called from the main thread. In the
current system a permission_error exception is raised.
Future versions may enable halt/0
from any thread.user_input. See also the history
prolog_flag (current_prolog_flag/2).
The prolog/0
predicate is terminated (succeeds) by typing the end-of-file character
(On most systems control-D).
The following two hooks allow for expanding queries and handling the result of a query. These hooks are used by the top-level variable expansion mechanism described in section 2.8.
user, normally not defined. Query
and
Bindings represents the query read from the user and the
names of the free variables as obtained using read_term/3.
If this predicate succeeds, it should bind Expanded and ExpandedBindings
to the query and bindings to be executed by the top-level. This
predicate is used by the top-level (prolog/0).
See also expand_answer/2
and
term_expansion/2.user, normally not defined. Expand the
result of a successfully executed top-level query. Bindings
is the query
<Name>=<Value> binding list
from the query. ExpandedBindings must be unified with the
bindings the top-level should print.