Re: Question about singleton variable names

From: Paulo Moura <pmoura_at_noe.ubi.pt>
Date: Thu 18 Jul 2002 09:32:34 AM GMT
Message-Id: <4A7AFAA5-9A31-11D6-9A2E-003065804322@noe.ubi.pt>
On Quinta, Julho 18, 2002, at 09:28 , J.R. van Ossenbruggen wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> With the flag variable_names=check_singletons, Eclipse warns about
> singleton variables, ignoring variables starting with '_'.
>
> However, read_term(+Stream, ?Term, [singletons(S)), returns
> also the variable names starting with '_' (e.g. _Foobar).
>
> Since Logtalk uses the latter to warn me about singletons, this results
> in a lot of unwanted warnings. Is there a way to suppress the 
> underscored
> variables in read_term(+Stream, ?Term, [singletons(S))?

I think that the ECLiPSe implementation of the singletons/1 option of 
the read_term/3 predicate should check the flag that you mention above 
and act accordingly. This will solve the problem. Is this a bug or a 
matter of flag scope?

Cheers,

Paulo


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