3.9 Nested Executions—Break

The Prolog system provides a way to suspend the execution of your program and to enter a new incarnation of the top-level where you can issue queries to solve goals etc. This is achieved by issuing the query (see Execution):

     | ?- break.

This invokes a recursive top-level, indicated by the message:

     % Break level 1

You can now type queries just as if you were at top-level.

If another call of break/0 is encountered, it moves up to level 2, and so on. To close the break and resume the execution that was suspended, type ^D. The debugger state and current input and output streams will be restored, and execution will be resumed at the predicate call where it had been suspended after printing the message:

     % End break

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