Re: write_canonical and streams

Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 02/12/2014 09:42 AM, Wouter Beek wrote:
> portray(Term):-
>    (is_stream(Term) ; blob(Term, stream)), !,

The disjunction doesn't help much; they are the
same test.  You probably want this:

	blob(Term, Type),
	Type \== text.

That is because atom(X) ==> blob(X, text). All
the others are somehow special.

>    write(monkey).
>
> test:-
>    open('README.md', read, Stream),
>    write_term(Stream, [blob(portray)]),

It is blobs(portray).

	--- Jan

>    nl,
>    halt.
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