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# self_messages

This simple programming example illustrates the semantics of messages
to _self_ (using the `(::)/1` control construct), i.e. to the object that
received the message being processed.

Print Logtalk, Prolog backend, and kernel versions (if running as a notebook):

```logtalk
%versions
```

Start by loading the example:

```logtalk
logtalk_load(self_messages(loader)).
```

The predicate `get_local/1` calls the `local/1` predicate in _self_,
i.e. in the object that receives the `get_local/1` message:

```logtalk
parent::get_local(Local).
```

<!--
Local = parent.
-->

```logtalk
prototype::get_local(Local).
```

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Local = prototype.
-->

The `get_default/1` predicate also calls the `default/1` predicate in
_self_ but predicate is only defined in the _parent_ object; its
definition is therefore inherited by the _prototype_ object:

```logtalk
parent::get_default(Default).
```

<!--
Default = parent.
-->

```logtalk
prototype::get_default(Local).
```

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Default = parent.
-->

The `get_undefined/1` predicate also calls the `undefined/1` predicate in
_self_ but the predicate is only declared and not defined in either
object making the messages fail as per closed world assumption:

```logtalk
parent::get_undefined(_).
```

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false.
-->

```logtalk
prototype::get_undefined(_).
```

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false.
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