.. index:: single: shell
.. _shell/0:

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**object**

``shell``
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User frontend to start the application.

| **Availability:** 
|    ``logtalk_load(verdi_neruda(loader))``

| **Author:** Paulo Moura
| **Version:** 1:1:0
| **Date:** 2026-08-10

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static, context_switching_calls``


| **Uses:**
|    :ref:`shell(Interpreters) <shell/1>`

| **Remarks:**
|    (none)

| **Inherited public predicates:**
|    (none)

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Public predicates
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.. index:: welcome/0
.. _shell/0::welcome/0:

``welcome/0``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Prints a welcome message.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``welcome`` - ``one``


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.. index:: start/0
.. _shell/0::start/0:

``start/0``
^^^^^^^^^^^

Starts the application shell with the available interpreters.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``start`` - ``one``


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Protected predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Private predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Operators
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(none)

