writes a term to a stream in a form defined by the given option-list.

write_term (+Term, +OptionList)
write_term (+Stream, +Term, +OptionList)

write_term/1 writes a single term (Term) to the current outputstream in the form given by OptionList.
write/2 writes a single term (Term) to the given stream(Stream) in the form given by OptionList.

Arguments

Examples

?- write_term(hello / World + '$VAR'(2), []).
hello / _1 + $VAR(2)

?- write_term(hello / World + '$VAR'(2), [quoted(true)]).
hello / _1 + $VAR(2)

?- write_term(hello / World + '$VAR'(2), [ignore_ops(true)]).
+(/(hello,_1),$VAR(2))

?- write_term(hello / World + '$VAR'(2), [numbervars(true)]).
hello / _1 + C

?- write_term(hello / World + '$VAR'(2), [variable_names(['Eric' = World])]).
hello / Eric + $VAR(2)

Standard

These predicates are part of the ISO-Prolog Standard.

See also

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