:DIRECT-CLASS

Purpose

Verifies that one frame is a direct class of another, or returns all direct classs of an instance.

Parameters

instance
The instance.
class
Either a frame to be tested or a variable to be bound.
If the :INCLUSIVE keyword is present and the class argument is a variable, the instance will be included as one of the bindings of the variable.

Examples

  (:DIRECT-CLASS Rover Physical_Objects)  ;; Succeeds if Rover is a direct instance of Physical_Objects
  (:DIRECT-CLASS Rover ?what)             ;; Retrieves the direct class(es) of Rover
  (:DIRECT-CLASS Rover ?what :INCLUSIVE)  ;; Retrieves Rover and its direct class(es)

Success criteria

The class argument must be a class. If the clause is ground, succeeds if the relationship is true. If the clause is not ground, succeeds if it retrieves at least one direct class.

Failure criteria

Fails if the class is not a class, if the direct-class relationship is not true, or if the parent has no direct classs.

Notes

None.

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