Logtalk 3.78.0 አውርድ

Logtalk compiler and runtime
- ADDED: Linter warning for left-recursion in clauses and grammar rules. Controlled by the new left_recursion flag with default value warning.
- ADDED: Object and category alias/2 property for object and module aliases declared using the uses/1 and use_module/1 directives. Also added the alias properties object, module, and predicate.
- ADDED: Object and category declares/2, defines/2, alias/2,, calls/2, updates/2, includes/3, and provides/3 properties now include an entity and predicate lines/2 property.
- FIXED: Bug where the entity properties includes/3 and provides/3 could be missing after reloading modified source files containing predicate multifile directives.
Documentation
- ADDED: A glossary definition for homoiconic programming languages.
- IMPROVED: Handbook section on declarative object-oriented programming.
- UPDATED: Handbook documentation on developer tools requirements.
- UPDATED: The help tool documentation on known issues.
- UPDATED: Notes on the VSCode and VSCodium text editors support.
Tools
- UPDATED: The tutor tool to explain the new linter warning for left-recursion in clauses and grammar rules.
- FIXED: Dependency on non-standard predicate in the dead_code_scanner tool.
- FIXED: Harmless Texinfo warning when using the help::man/1 predicate.
Examples
- IMPROVED: Documentation of the shapes example.
- UPDATED: The errors example to illustrate the new linter warning for left-recursion in clauses and grammar rules.
- UPDATED: The multifile example to also illustrate multifile non-terminals.
- FIXED: Spurious choice-points in the blocks and bricks examples.
- FIXED: The SICStus Prolog specific constraints/sicstus example to not depend on the default double_quotes flag value.
- FIXED: The SWI-Prolog specific constraints/swipl example to not depend on the default double_quotes flag value.
- FIXED: The SWI-Prolog specific constraints/swipl example to always load the knight object.
- FIXED: The SWI-Prolog specific pengines example to not depend on the default double_quotes flag value.
Tests
- ADDED: Additional tests for the Prolog standard (=..)/2 and is/2 predicates.
IDEs, text editors, and syntax highlighters support
- ADDED: Support for VSCode and VSCodium code navigation features.