...RiskWise^2.1

In the following we use a number of examples from the RiskWise application. It is a network analysis tool for IP networks, which uses a constraint solver to determine traffic pattern in the network. If this doesn't make any sense to you, relax. An understanding of the networking application domain is not required to follow this tutorial.

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... written^2.2

This doesn't mean that the interface can't evolve over time, but at each time point there should be a current, valid definition of the API accepted by all concerned.

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... callers^2.3

Note that the compiler currently does not perform a mode check, i.e. it does not generate compile/runtime errors if a predicate is called with a wrong mode.

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... declaration^2.4

We can see that we have not followed the rule to place all input arguments before the output arguments.

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... effort^3.1

ECLiPSEe 5.4 contains a freeware XML (http://www.xml.org) parser which handles most of the detail of parsing XML files. This makes the use of XML as a data exchange format for ECLiPSe are very exiting new possibility. The parser is described in the ``Third Party Library'' section of the reference manual.

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... language^3.2

Destructive assignment in the hash library is hidden from the user.

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... compiler^5.1

As ECLiPSe only uses indexing on a single argument, the compiler cannot recognize that the clause patterns are exclusive.

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... techniques^6.1

We should at this point again mention the possibilities of the EXDR format which can be easily read into ECLiPSe, and which is usually simpler to generate in other languages than the canonical Prolog format.

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... point^7.1

Experiment! Your mileage may vary!

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... profiling^8.1

The profiling facility is now available as one of the ECLiPSe libraries in the library coverage. The actual output looks slightly different.

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