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A Semantics-Aware Editing Environment for Prolog in Eclipse

Programming Languages 2009-03-13 v1 Human-Computer Interaction Software Engineering

Abstract

In this paper we present a Prolog plugin for Eclipse based upon BE4, and providing many features such as semantic-aware syntax highlighting, outline view, error marking, content assist, hover information, documentation generation, and quick fixes. The plugin makes use of a Java parser for full Prolog with an integrated Prolog engine, and can be extended with further semantic analyses, e.g., based on abstract interpretation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0903.2252,
  title  = {A Semantics-Aware Editing Environment for Prolog in Eclipse},
  author = {Jens Bendisposto and Ian Endrijautzki and Michael Leuschel and David Schneider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.2252},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Paper presented at the 18th Workshop on Logic-based Methods in Programming Environments (WLPE2008) (Report-No: WLPE/2008). Paper submitted by a co-editor of the Workshop proceedings

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