4.6 Miscellaneous

int PlTerm::type()

Yields the actual type of the term as PL_term_type(). Return values are PL_VARIABLE, PL_FLOAT, PL_INTEGER, PL_ATOM, PL_STRING or PL_TERM

To avoid very confusing combinations of constructors and therefore possible undesirable effects a number of subclasses of PlTerm have been defined that provide constructors for creating special Prolog terms. These subclasses are defined below.