Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Part I: Application Programming
  • 1 Application Support: Application
    • 1.1 The Application Module
    • 1.2 Parsing Conventions
      • 1.2.1 Parsing of CGI Arguments
      • 1.2.2 Parsing of Command Lines
    • 1.3 Option Specifications
      • 1.3.1 Plain
      • 1.3.2 List
      • List Examples
      • 1.3.3 Record
      • Record Examples
  • 2 Module Managers: Module
    • 2.1 Basics
    • 2.2 Module Names and URLs
    • 2.3 The Class Module.manager
    • 2.4 Predefined Abstractions
• Part II: Constraint Programming
  • 3 Constraints-Specific Type Structure and Modes
    • 3.1 Type Structure
    • 3.2 Signatures
      • Types
      • Modes
      • 3.2.1 Notational Conventions
  • 4 Search Engines: Search
    • 4.1 Basic Search Engines
    • 4.2 General Purpose Search Engines
      • 4.2.1 Single Solution Search
      • 4.2.2 All Solution Search
      • 4.2.3 Best Solution Search
    • 4.3 Search.object
    • 4.4 Parallel Search Engines
      • 4.4.1 An Example
      • 4.4.2 The Class Search.parallel
  • 5 Finite Domain Constraints: FD
    • 5.1 Some Facts About Propagators
    • 5.2 The Concept of Constructive Disjunction
    • 5.3 Finite Domains
    • 5.4 Telling Domains
    • 5.5 Reflection
    • 5.6 Watching Domains
    • 5.7 Generic Propagators
    • 5.8 Symbolic Propagators
    • 5.9 0/1 Propagators
    • 5.10 Reified Constraints
    • 5.11 Miscellaneous Propagators
    • 5.12 Distribution
    • 5.13 Assigning Values
  • 6 Scheduling Support: Schedule
    • 6.1 Serialization for Unary Resources
    • 6.2 Distribution
    • 6.3 Cumulative Scheduling
    • 6.4 Miscellaneous Propagators
  • 7 Finite Set Constraints: FS
    • 7.1 Finite Set Intervals
    • 7.2 Sets over Integers
    • 7.3 Standard Propagators
    • 7.4 Finite Set Interval Variables
      • 7.4.1 Declaring a Single Variable
      • 7.4.2 Declaring a List of Variables
      • 7.4.3 Declaring a Tuple of Variables
      • 7.4.4 Declaring a Record of Variables
    • 7.5 Finite Set Constants
    • 7.6 Reified Propagators
    • 7.7 Iterating and Monitoring
    • 7.8 Reflection
    • 7.9 Distribution
  • 8 Feature Constraints: RecordC
  • 9 Deep-guard Concurrent Constraint Combinators: Combinator
  • 10 First-class Computation Spaces: Space
• Part III: Distributed Programming
  • 11 General Distributed Programming Support: DP
    • 11.1 Initializing the Distribution Layer
    • 11.2 Distribution Annotations
      • 11.2.1 Annotating Entities
      • 11.2.2 Annotation Values
      • 11.2.3 Default Annotations
    • 11.3 Fault Handling
      • 11.3.1 Entity Fault Stream
      • 11.3.2 Kill and Break
    • 11.4 Special Case: Variables
    • 11.5 Limitations
  • 12 Connecting Computations: Connection
    • 12.1 One-to-one Connections
    • 12.2 Many-to-one Connections
      • 12.2.1 Gates
  • 13 Spawning Computations Remotely: Remote
    • 13.1 Process Termination and Remote Managers
  • 14 Referring To Distributed Entities: URL
    • 14.1 Examples
    • 14.2 Interface
  • 15 Resolving URLs: Resolve
    • 15.1 From search paths to search methods
    • 15.2 Syntax of methods
    • 15.3 Interface of Resolve Module
    • 15.4 Interface of a Resolver
  • 16 Locating services in a network: Discovery
    • 16.1 The Module
  • 17 Detecting and Handling Distribution Problems: Fault
  • 18 Initializing and instrumenting the distribution layer: DPInit
  • 19 Retriving statistical information from the Distribution layer: DPStatistics
    • 19.1 Interface of DPStatistics Module
• Part IV: Open Programming
  • 20 Files, Sockets, and Pipes: Open
    • 20.1 Exceptions
    • 20.2 The Class Open.file
    • 20.3 The Class Open.socket
    • 20.4 The Class Open.pipe
    • 20.5 The Class Open.text
  • 21 Operating System Support: OS
    • 21.1 Conventions
    • 21.2 Exceptions
    • 21.3 Random Integers
    • 21.4 Files
    • 21.5 Directories
    • 21.6 Sockets
    • 21.7 Time
    • 21.8 Environment Variables
    • 21.9 Miscellaneous
    • 21.10 Low Level Procedures
      • 21.10.1 Basic Input and Output
      • 21.10.2 From Blocking to Suspension
      • 21.10.3 Sockets
      • 21.10.4 Process Control
• Part V: System Programming
  • 22 Persistent Values: Pickle
  • 23 Emulator Properties: Property
    • 23.1 Engine Properties
      • Application Support: application
      • Distribution: dp
        • Default annotations: dp.annotation
      • Logging of distributed events: dpLog
      • Printing Errors: errors
      • Finite Domains: fd
      • Garbage Collection: gc
      • Implementation Limits: limits
      • Marshaler: marshaler
      • Memory Usage: memory
      • Printing Messages: messages
      • Platform Information: platform
      • Printing Values: print
      • Thread Priorities: priorities
      • Computation Spaces: spaces
      • Threads: threads
      • Time Usage: time
    • 23.2 Environment Properties
    • 23.3 The Programming Interface
  • 24 Error Formatting: Error
    • 24.1 Data Structures
    • 24.2 The Error Registry
    • 24.3 Example Error Formatter
    • 24.4 The Module
  • 25 System Error Formatters: ErrorFormatters
  • 26 Memory Management: Finalize
    • 26.1 Pre-mortem finalization facilities
    • 26.2 Post-mortem finalization facilities
  • 27 Miscelleanous System Support: System
    • 27.1 System Control
    • 27.2 Printing
    • 27.3 Miscellaneous
• Part VI: Window Programming
  • 28 The Module Tk
    • 28.1 Tickles
      • 28.1.1 Syntax
      • 28.1.2 Translation to Virtual Strings
      • 28.1.3 Sending Tickles
      • 28.1.4 Sending Tickles and Returning Values
    • 28.2 Tickle Objects
      • 28.2.1 Action Values
      • 28.2.2 Action Argument Values
      • 28.2.3 Event Argument Values
    • 28.3 No-Action Widgets
    • 28.4 Action Widgets
    • 28.5 Toplevel Widgets
    • 28.6 Menu Entries
    • 28.7 Variables
    • 28.8 Tags And Marks
    • 28.9 Images
    • 28.10 Fonts
    • 28.11 Listeners
    • 28.12 Strings
    • 28.13 Miscellaneous
  • 29 Graphical Tools: TkTools
    • 29.1 Error
    • 29.2 Dialog
    • 29.3 Menubar
    • 29.4 Popup Menu
    • 29.5 Textframe
    • 29.6 Notebook
    • 29.7 Note
    • 29.8 Scale
    • 29.9 Number Entry
    • 29.10 Images
    • 29.11 Resolve Images
• Part VII: Miscellaneous
  • 30 Support Classes for Objects: ObjectSupport
    • 30.1 Classes for Master/Slave Behaviour
    • 30.2 Reflecting Objects
  • Bibliography
  • Index