# `dif`

The `dif` object provides a portable abstraction over how the `dif/2` predicate is made available by the supported backend Prolog systems that implement it (B-Prolog, ECLiPSe, XVM, SICStus Prolog, SWI-Prolog, Trealla Prolog, XSB, and YAP).

Calls to the library predicates are inlined when compiled with the `optimize` flag turned on. In this case, there is no overhead compared with calling the abstracted predicate directly.

See also the `coroutining` library.

## API documentation

Open the ../../docs/library_index.html#dif link in a web browser.

## Loading

To load all entities in this library, load the `loader.lgt` file:

    | ?- logtalk_load(dif(loader)).

## Testing

To test this library predicates, load the `tester.lgt` file:

    | ?- logtalk_load(dif(tester)).

## Usage

Load this library from your application loader file. To call the `dif/1-2` predicates using implicit message sending, add the following directive to any object or category calling the predicates:

    :- uses(dif, [
        dif/2, dif/1
    ]).