This adds support for declaring predicates as placeholders through the
“#external” directive in the input language of clingo.
Placeholders are not subject to completion. This prevents predicates
that represent instance-specific facts from being assumed as universally
false by default negation when translating an encoding.
This stretches clingo’s usual syntax a bit to make the implementation
lightweight. In order to declare a predicate with a specific arity as a
placeholder, the following statement needs to be added to the program:
#external <predicate name>(<arity>).
Multiple unit tests cover cases where placeholders are used or not as
well as a more complex graph coloring example.
With cxxopts 2.0.0, positional arguments weren’t recognized when other
command-line options were passed before. This has been fixed in the
meantime, but there is no release with the bug fix yet.
This updates cxxopts to a newer commit to ship anthem with this fix.
Boost was only used for program option parsing. To avoid this huge
dependency, this commit replaces boost::program_options with cxxopts,
a header-only library with the same functionality.
cxxopts is added as a submodule, and Boost is removed from the
dependencies in the code and Travis configuration.
patrick