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**built-in method**

.. index:: pair: question_prompt_stream/4; Built-in method
.. _methods_question_prompt_stream_4:

``question_prompt_stream/4``
============================

Description
-----------

::

   question_prompt_stream(Kind, Component, Prompt, Stream)

User-defined hook method for specifying the default prompt and input
stream for asking a question for a given kind and :term:`component`.
This method is declared in the :ref:`logtalk <apis:logtalk/0>` built-in
object as a public, multifile, and dynamic predicate.

Modes and number of proofs
--------------------------

::

   question_prompt_stream(?nonvar, ?nonvar, ?atom, ?stream_or_alias) - zero_or_more

Errors
------

(none)

Examples
--------

::

   :- multifile(logtalk::question_prompt_stream/4).
   :- dynamic(logtalk::question_prompt_stream/4).

   logtalk::question_prompt_stream(question, debugger, '    > ', user_input).

.. seealso::

   :ref:`methods_ask_question_5`,
   :ref:`methods_question_hook_6`,
   :ref:`methods_message_hook_4`,
   :ref:`methods_message_prefix_stream_4`,
   :ref:`methods_message_tokens_2`,
   :ref:`methods_print_message_3`,
   :ref:`methods_print_message_tokens_3`,
   :ref:`methods_print_message_token_4`
