There are a number of tasks you typically carry out on your project,
such as loading it, creating a saved state, debugging it, etc. Good
practice on large projects is to define small files that hold the
commands to execute such a task, name this file after the task and give
it a file extension that makes starting easy (see
section 3.1.1.1).
The task load is generally central to these tasks. Here is a
tentative list:
load.pl
Use this file to set up the environment (Prolog flags and file search
paths) and load the sources. Quite commonly this file also provides
convenient predicates to parse command line options and start the
application.
run.pl
Use this file to start the application. Normally it loads load.pl
in silent-mode, and calls one of the starting predicates from
load.pl.
save.pl
Use this file to create a saved state of the application by loading
load.pl and calling qsave_program/2
to generate a saved state with the proper options.
debug.pl
Loads the program for debugging. In addition to loading load.pl
this file defines rules for portray/1
to modify printing rules for complex terms and customisation rules for
the debugger and editing environment. It may start some of these tools.
