This refactoring separates predicates from their declarations. The
purpose of this is to avoid duplicating properties specific to the
predicate declaration and not its occurrences in the program.
The unary modulus operation does not require extra parentheses to be
printed in cases like “|X + Y|”. This adds a new option to the printing
routine to omit parentheses in cases where the parent expression already
defines a parenthesis-like scope (currently only with unary operations).
Because of a bug in the Clingo API, the exponentation operator was not
properly exposed to anthem. This updates Clingo to a version with a
fixed API and adds proper support for exponentation within anthem along
with a matching unit test.
This adds support for declaring predicates as placeholders through the
“#external” directive in the input language of clingo.
Placeholders are not subject to completion. This prevents predicates
that represent instance-specific facts from being assumed as universally
false by default negation when translating an encoding.
This stretches clingo’s usual syntax a bit to make the implementation
lightweight. In order to declare a predicate with a specific arity as a
placeholder, the following statement needs to be added to the program:
#external <predicate name>(<arity>).
Multiple unit tests cover cases where placeholders are used or not as
well as a more complex graph coloring example.
With C++17, optionals, an experimental language feature, were moved to
the “std” namespace. This makes C++17 mandatory and drops the now
obsolete “experimental” namespace.
