Printing status and error messages

Usage:error_message(Text)

Same as message(error,Text).

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (basic_props:string/1)Text is a string (a list of character codes).

Usage:error_message(Text,ArgList)

Same as message(error,Text,ArgList).

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (format:format_control/1)Text is an atom or string describing how the arguments should be formatted. If it is an atom it will be converted into a string with name/2.
  (basic_props:list/1)ArgList is a list.

Usage:error_message(Lc,Text,ArgList)

Same as message(error,Lc,Text,ArgList).

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (c_itf_internal:location_t/1)Identifies a source line range in a file.

  location_t(loc(File,L1,L2)) :-
          atm(File),
          int(L1),
          int(L2).
  

  
  (format:format_control/1)Text is an atom or string describing how the arguments should be formatted. If it is an atom it will be converted into a string with name/2.
  (basic_props:list/1)ArgList is a list.

Usage:warning_message(Text)

Same as message(warning,Text).

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (basic_props:string/1)Text is a string (a list of character codes).

Usage:warning_message(Text,ArgList)

Same as message(warning,Text,ArgList).

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (format:format_control/1)Text is an atom or string describing how the arguments should be formatted. If it is an atom it will be converted into a string with name/2.
  (basic_props:list/1)ArgList is a list.

Usage:warning_message(Lc,Text,ArgList)

Same as message(warning,Lc,Text,ArgList).

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (c_itf_internal:location_t/1)Identifies a source line range in a file.

  location_t(loc(File,L1,L2)) :-
          atm(File),
          int(L1),
          int(L2).
  

  
  (format:format_control/1)Text is an atom or string describing how the arguments should be formatted. If it is an atom it will be converted into a string with name/2.
  (basic_props:list/1)ArgList is a list.

Usage:note_message(Text)

Same as message(note,Text).

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (basic_props:string/1)Text is a string (a list of character codes).

Usage:note_message(Text,ArgList)

Same as message(note,Text,ArgList).

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (format:format_control/1)Text is an atom or string describing how the arguments should be formatted. If it is an atom it will be converted into a string with name/2.
  (basic_props:list/1)ArgList is a list.

Usage:note_message(Lc,Text,ArgList)

Same as message(note,Lc,Text,ArgList).

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (c_itf_internal:location_t/1)Identifies a source line range in a file.

  location_t(loc(File,L1,L2)) :-
          atm(File),
          int(L1),
          int(L2).
  

  
  (format:format_control/1)Text is an atom or string describing how the arguments should be formatted. If it is an atom it will be converted into a string with name/2.
  (basic_props:list/1)ArgList is a list.

Usage:simple_message(Text)

The text provided in Text is printed.

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (basic_props:string/1)Text is a string (a list of character codes).

Usage:simple_message(Text,ArgList)

The text provided in Text is printed as a message, using the arguments in ArgList.

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (format:format_control/1)Text is an atom or string describing how the arguments should be formatted. If it is an atom it will be converted into a string with name/2.
  (basic_props:list/1)ArgList is a list.

Usage:optional_message(Text,Opts)

The text provided in Text is printed as a message, but only if the atom -v is a member of Opts. These predicates are meant to be used for optional messages, which are only to be printed when verbose output is requested explicitly.

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (basic_props:string/1)Text is a string (a list of character codes).
  (basic_props:list/2)Opts is a list of atms.

Usage:optional_message(Text,ArgList,Opts)

The text provided in Text is printed as a message, using the arguments in ArgList, but only if the atom -v is a member of Opts. These predicates are meant to be used for optional messages, which are only to be printed when verbose output is requested explicitly.

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (format:format_control/1)Text is an atom or string describing how the arguments should be formatted. If it is an atom it will be converted into a string with name/2.
  (basic_props:list/1)ArgList is a list.
  (basic_props:list/2)Opts is a list of atms.

Usage:debug_message(Text)

The text provided in Text is printed as a debugging message. These messages are turned on by defining a fact of issue_debug_messages/1 with the module name as argument.

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (format:format_control/1)Text is an atom or string describing how the arguments should be formatted. If it is an atom it will be converted into a string with name/2.

Usage:debug_message(Text,ArgList)

The text provided in Text is printed as a debugging message, using the arguments in ArgList to interpret any variable-related formatting commands embedded in Text. These messages are turned on by defining a fact of issue_debug_messages/1 which the module name as argument.

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (format:format_control/1)Text is an atom or string describing how the arguments should be formatted. If it is an atom it will be converted into a string with name/2.
  (basic_props:list/1)ArgList is a list.

Usage:debug_goal(Goal,Text)

Goal is called. The text provided in Text is then printed as a debugging message. The whole process (including running Goal) is turned on by defining a fact of issue_debug_messages/1 with the module name as argument.

Usage:debug_goal(Goal,Text,ArgList)

Goal is called. The text provided in Text is then printed as a debugging message, using the arguments in ArgList to interpret any variable-related formatting commands embedded in Text. Note that the variables in ArgList can be computed by Goal. The whole process (including running Goal) is turned on by defining a fact of issue_debug_messages/1 with the module name as argument.

Usage:show_message(Type,Text)

The text provided in Text is printed as a message of type Type.

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (messages:message_t/1)The types of messaes supported by the message predicate
  (basic_props:string/1)Text is a string (a list of character codes).

Usage:show_message(Type,Text,ArgList)

The text provided in Text is printed as a message of type Type, using the arguments in ArgList to interpret any variable-related formatting commands embedded in Text.

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (messages:message_t/1)The types of messaes supported by the message predicate
  (format:format_control/1)Text is an atom or string describing how the arguments should be formatted. If it is an atom it will be converted into a string with name/2.
  (basic_props:list/1)ArgList is a list.

Usage:show_message(Type,Lc,Text,ArgList)

The text provided in Text is printed as a message of type Type, using the arguments in ArgList to interpret any variable-related formatting commands embedded in Text, and reporting error location Lc (file and line numbers).

• The following properties should hold at call time:
  (messages:message_t/1)The types of messaes supported by the message predicate
  (c_itf_internal:location_t/1)Identifies a source line range in a file.

  location_t(loc(File,L1,L2)) :-
          atm(File),
          int(L1),
          int(L2).
  

  
  (format:format_control/1)Text is an atom or string describing how the arguments should be formatted. If it is an atom it will be converted into a string with name/2.
  (basic_props:list/1)ArgList is a list.

Usage:

The types of messaes supported by the message predicate

(Trust) Usage:issue_debug_messages(Module)

Printing of debugging messages is enabled for module Module.

• The following properties hold upon exit:
  (basic_props:atm/1)Module is an atom.