This surprised me a bit. I didn’t find it documented but historically I have been quite bad at reading the docs. ?- format("~w~n", [foo,bar]). foo true. The opposite (not enough arguments) throws an error.

With this patch we get 101 ?- format("~w~n", [foo,bar]). foo ERROR: Format error: too many arguments ERROR: In: ERROR: [10] format("~w~n",[foo,bar]) ERROR: [9] <user> 102 ?- Let us see whether that results in too many broken programs … Having a flag to suppress errors that will be in the sy…

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