4.12.7 Modification of Running Code: Examples
The following examples show what happens when a procedure is modified while it is
running. This can happen in two ways:
- The procedure calls some other procedure that modifies it.
- The procedure succeeds nondeterminately, and a subsequent goal makes
the modification.
In either case, the question arises
as to whether the modifications take effect upon backtracking into the
modified procedure. In SICStus Prolog the answer is that they do not.
As explained in the overview to this section (see
ref-mdb-bas), modifications to a procedure affect only
calls to that procedure that occur after the modification.
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