[m-rev.] for review: atoms in the debugger

[Mark Brown]

On 04-Jan-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 04-Jan-2002, David Overton <dmo at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > Looking at the Sicstus manual, they seem to use "goal" to refer to the
> > atom printed by the debugger:
> 
> Another example is that the SWI-Prolog debugger's command to display the
> atom stack is spelt "g" and documented as "goals (backtrace)".

I could accept "goal" and leave the fact that it is atomic implicit,
but I still prefer "atom".

> 
> Oh, yes, and the "atom stack" is normally referred to as the call stack
> rather than the atom stack ;-)
> 

That's because it consists of call atoms (as opposed to exit atoms).
;-) ;-)

Cheers,
Mark.

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