4.6.4.2 Common Characteristics

The output of the “Write” predicates is not terminated by a full-stop; therefore, if you want the term to be acceptable as input to read/[1,2], you must send the terminating full-stop to the output stream yourself. For example,

     | ?- write(a), put_code(0'.), nl.

If Term is uninstantiated, it is written as an anonymous variable (an underscore followed by a non-negative integer).

write_canonical/[1,2] is provided so that Term, if written to a file, can be read back by read/[1,2] regardless whether there are special characters in Term or prevailing operator declarations.


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