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Predicate consult/1
Availability:built-in
Sourceconsult(:File)
Read File as a Prolog source file. Calls to consult/1 may be abbreviated by just typing a number of filenames in a list. Examples:

?- consult(load). % consult load or load.pl
?- [library(lists)]. % load library lists
?- [user]. % Type program on the terminal

The predicate consult/1 is equivalent to load_files(File, []), except for handling the special file user, which reads clauses from the terminal. See also the stream(Input) option of load_files/2. Abbreviation using ?- [file1,file2]. does not work for the empty list ([]). This facility is implemented by defining the list as a predicate. Applications may only rely on using the list abbreviation at the Prolog toplevel and in directives.

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LogicalCaptain said (2020-03-10T09:31:09):0 upvotes 0 0 downvotes
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You can actually also pass a series of files:

consult([foo,roo])

LogicalCaptain said (2020-03-10T08:30:10):0 upvotes 0 0 downvotes
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Edge case:

If there are files "roo", "foo", "foo.pl" and "foo.pl.pl"

Then

[foo] loads "foo.pl"

['foo.pl'] or ["foo.pl"] also loads "foo.pl"

['foo.pl.pl'] loads "foo.pl.pl"

Loading "foo" is not possible, but

[roo] still load "roo.pl"

It is only the suffix ".pl" which is proceessed this way. If it's not ".pl", you cannot leave the suffix out in the argument to consult.