/usr/local/lib/swipl/library/lazy_lists.pl
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  • swipl
    • library
      • error.pl
      • debug.pl
      • apply.pl -- Apply predicates on a list
      • lists.pl -- List Manipulation
      • broadcast.pl -- Event service
      • predicate_options.pl
      • shlib.pl
      • option.pl
      • thread_pool.pl
      • gensym.pl
      • settings.pl -- Setting management
      • arithmetic.pl
      • main.pl
      • readutil.pl -- Read utilities
      • operators.pl -- Manage operators
      • pairs.pl -- Operations on key-value lists
      • prolog_source.pl -- Examine Prolog source-files
      • record.pl -- Access compound arguments by name
      • quasi_quotations.pl -- Define Quasi Quotation syntax
      • pure_input.pl -- Pure Input from files and streams
      • solution_sequences.pl -- Modify solution sequences
      • ordsets.pl -- Ordered set manipulation
      • random.pl -- Random numbers
      • base64.pl -- Base64 encoding and decoding
      • aggregate.pl -- Aggregation operators on backtrackable predicates
      • yall.pl -- Lambda expressions
      • sandbox.pl -- Sandboxed Prolog code
      • apply_macros.pl -- Goal expansion rules to avoid meta-calling
      • assoc.pl -- Binary associations
      • prolog_format.pl -- Analyse format specifications
      • csv.pl -- Process CSV (Comma-Separated Values) data
      • pprint.pl -- Pretty Print Prolog terms
      • atom.pl -- Operations on atoms
      • modules.pl -- Module utility predicates
      • occurs.pl -- Finding and counting sub-terms
      • prolog_xref.pl -- Prolog cross-referencer data collection
      • prolog_colour.pl
      • lazy_lists.pl -- Lazy list handling
        • lazy_list/2
        • lazy_list/3
        • lazy_list_materialize/1
        • lazy_list_length/2
        • lazy_list_iterator/4
        • lazy_get_codes/4
        • lazy_read_terms/4
        • lazy_read_lines/4
        • lazy_message_queue/4
        • lazy_engine_next/4
        • lazy_findall/3
        • lazy_findall/4
      • ugraphs.pl -- Graph manipulation library
      • iostream.pl -- Utilities to deal with streams
      • url.pl -- Analysing and constructing URL
      • www_browser.pl -- Open a URL in the users browser
      • prolog_pack.pl -- A package manager for Prolog
      • git.pl -- Run GIT commands
      • rbtrees.pl -- Red black trees
      • dif.pl -- The dif/2 constraint
      • charsio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • prolog_stack.pl -- Examine the Prolog stack
      • edinburgh.pl -- Some traditional Edinburgh predicates
      • prolog_clause.pl -- Get detailed source-information about a clause
      • prolog_breakpoints.pl -- Manage Prolog break-points
      • wfs.pl -- Well Founded Semantics interface
      • dialect.pl -- Support multiple Prolog dialects
      • prolog_code.pl -- Utilities for reasoning about code
      • sort.pl
      • dicts.pl -- Dict utilities
      • varnumbers.pl -- Utilities for numbered terms
      • base32.pl -- Base32 encoding and decoding
      • codesio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • coinduction.pl -- Co-Logic Programming
      • date.pl -- Process dates and times
      • heaps.pl -- heaps/priority queues
      • statistics.pl -- Get information about resource usage
      • terms.pl -- Term manipulation
      • when.pl -- Conditional coroutining
      • backcomp.pl -- Backward compatibility
      • persistency.pl -- Provide persistent dynamic predicates
      • quintus.pl -- Quintus compatibility
      • optparse.pl -- command line parsing
      • check.pl -- Consistency checking
      • threadutil.pl -- Interactive thread utilities
      • nb_set.pl -- Non-backtrackable sets
      • prolog_debug.pl -- User level debugging tools
      • prolog_jiti.pl -- Just In Time Indexing (JITI) utilities
      • shell.pl -- Elementary shell commands
      • files.pl
      • system.pl -- System utilities
      • increval.pl -- Incremental dynamic predicate modification
      • tables.pl -- XSB interface to tables
      • fastrw.pl -- Fast reading and writing of terms
      • oset.pl -- Ordered set manipulation
      • help.pl -- Text based manual
      • qsave.pl -- Save current program as a state or executable
      • zip.pl -- Access resource ZIP archives
      • prolog_autoload.pl -- Autoload all dependencies
      • thread.pl -- High level thread primitives
      • ansi_term.pl -- Print decorated text to ANSI consoles
      • utf8.pl -- UTF-8 encoding/decoding on lists of character codes.
      • hashtable.pl -- Hash tables
      • strings.pl -- String utilities
      • listing.pl -- List programs and pretty print clauses
      • prolog_trace.pl -- Print access to predicates
      • prolog_wrap.pl -- Wrapping predicates
 lazy_list(:Next, +State0, -List)
Create a lazy list where the next element is defined by
call(Next, State0, State1, Head)

The example below uses this predicate to define a lazy list holding the Fibonacci numbers. Our state keeps the two previous Fibonacci numbers.

fibonacci_numbers(L) :-
    lazy_list(fib, state(-,-), L).

fib(state(-,-), state(0,-), 0) :- !.
fib(state(0,-), state(1,0), 1) :- !.
fib(state(P,Q), state(F,P), F) :-
    F is P+Q.

The above can be used to retrieve the Nth Fibonacci number. As fib/2 provides no access to the complete list of Fibonacci numbers, this can be used to generate large Fibonacci numbers.

fib(N, F) :-
    fibonacci_numbers(L),
    nth1(N, L, F).