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Built in predicates

Argument Indicators
++At call time, the argument must be ground, i.e., the argument may not contain any variables that are still unbound.
+At call time, the argument must be instantiated to a term satisfying some (informal) type specification. The argument need not necessarily be ground. For example, the term [_] is a list, although its only member is the anonymous variable, which is always unbound (and thus nonground).
Argument is an output argument. It may or may not be bound at call-time.
At call time, the argument must be unbound. This is typically used by predicates that create‘something’ and return a handle to the created object, such as open/3, which creates a stream.
?At call time, the argument must be bound to a partial term (a term which may or may not be ground) satisfying some (informal) type specification.
:Argument is a meta-argument, for example a term that can be called as goal. The predicate is thus a meta-predicate. This flag implies +.
@Argument will not be further instantiated than it is at call-time. Typically used for type tests.
!Argument contains a mutable structure that may be modified using setarg/3 or nb_setarg/3.
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