A Proposal for Modules in Prolog

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A Proposal for Modules in Prolog ? Dale Miller Computer Science Department University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 USA Abstract. Higher-order hereditary Harrop formulas, the underlying log- ical foundation of Prolog [NM88], are more expressive than rst-order Horn clauses, the logical foundation of Prolog. In particular, various forms of scoping and abstraction are supported by the logic of higher- order hereditary Harrop formulas while they are not supported by rst- order Horn clauses. Various papers have argued that the scoping and abstraction available in this richer logic can be used to provide for mod- ular programming [Mil89b], abstract data types [Mil89a], and state en- capsulation [HM90]. None of these papers, however, have dealt with the problems of programming-in-the-large, that is, the essentially linguistic problems of putting together various dierent textual sources of code found, say, in dierent les on a persistent store into one logic program. In this paper, I propose a module system for Prolog and shall focus mostly on its static semantics. 1 Module syntax should be declarative Several modern programming languages are built on declarative, formal lan- guages: for example, ML and Scheme are based on the -calculus and Prolog is based on Horn clauses.

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