Re: Loading database from string (C API)

On 12/11/2013 02:37 PM, Edd Barrett wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 02:34:18PM +0100, Jan Wielemaker wrote:
>> It is a bug in PL_term_type().  This function is not very popular and
>> (thus) poorly maintained.  Stream handles are `blobs'.  Blob is SWI-Prolog's
>> internal super-type for shared symbols.  Atoms are
>> just a sub-type thereof.  Some examples:
>>
>> I'll fix PL_term_type()
>
> Ah ha!
>
> Can you link me to the diff after? Thanks.

Pushed.  See

http://www.swi-prolog.org/git/pl-devel.git/commit/a93cf7b973675026fbaf5fe1cdb0008bdcb9a549

This will not be back ported to 6.6.x.  I'd rely on other tests
if you want to know more than the basic classification PL_term_type()
gives you in the old versions.

	Cheers --- Jan