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# engines - whisper

This example creates a chain of engines passing a term. The original example was
written by Jan Wielemaker. Currently it runs on ECLiPSe, SWI-Prolog, and XVM. It
should run also on XSB and YAP if and when these systems bugs with coroutining
and/or threads get fixed.

When using XVM as the backend, this example must be run from the top-level
interpreter.

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

```logtalk
%versions
```

Load the example:

```logtalk
logtalk_load(whisper(loader)).
```

Some sample queries:

```logtalk
whisper::whisper(0, 1, Final).
```

<!--
1

Final = 1.
-->

```logtalk
whisper::whisper(1, 1, Final).
```

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Sending 2 to engine 2
2

Final = 2.
-->

```logtalk
whisper::whisper(3, 1, Final).
```

<!--
Sending 2 to engine 6
Sending 3 to engine 5
Sending 4 to engine 4
4

Final = 4.
-->

```logtalk
whisper::whisper(5, 3, Final).
```

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Sending 4 to engine 12
Sending 5 to engine 11
Sending 6 to engine 10
Sending 7 to engine 9
Sending 8 to engine 8
8

Final = 8.
-->
