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% start by loading the non-patched object "employee":

| ?- logtalk_load(complements_allow(employee)). ...

% ask "employee" its name:

| ?- employee::name(Name).

Name = john yes

% ask "employee" its salary:

| ?- employee::salary(Salary).

Salary = 23500 yes

% check the protocol of the object "employee":

| ?- findall(Predicate, employee::current_predicate(Predicate), Predicates).

Predicates = [age/1, name/1, salary/1] yes

% now load the "add_on" complementing category:

| ?- logtalk_load(complements_allow(add_on)). ...

% load the "dynamic.lgt" source file that creates a dynamic complementing % category, also patching the "employee" object:

| ?- logtalk_load(complements_allow(dynamic)). ...

% find categories that complement objects:

| ?- complements_object(Category, Object).

Category = dynamic_patch, Object = employee ; Category = add_on, Object = employee yes

% use the event handler defined in the "add_on" category for the object "employee":

| ?- employee::name(Name). Received message name(_16) from user

Name = john yes

% check the consequences of the runtime patch of the salary/1 predicate:

| ?- employee::salary(Salary).

Received message salary(_G192) from user Salary = 42000 yes

% check the new protocol of the object "employee":

| ?- employee::predicates(Predicates). Received message predicates(_G180) from user

Predicates = [after/3, age/1, before/3, income/1, name/1, predicates/1, salary/1] yes

| ?- employee::predicate_property(predicates(_), Property).

Property = logtalk ; Property = scope(public) ; Property = (public) ; Property = static ; Property = declared_in(add_on) ; Property = declared_in(add_on, 29) ; Property = defined_in(add_on) ; Property = defined_in(add_on, 31) ; Property = number_of_clauses(1) yes

| ?- employee::predicate_property(income(_), Property).

Property = logtalk ; Property = scope(public) ; Property = (public) ; Property = static ; Property = declared_in(employee) ; Property = alias_of(salary(_G3724)) ; Property = defined_in(dynamic_patch) ; Property = number_of_clauses(0) yes

% later, the boss finds out about the employee hacked salary:

| ?- abolish_category(dynamic_patch).

yes

| ?- employee::salary(Salary).

Received message salary(_G192) from user Salary = 23500 yes