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+% this is a Logtalk source file
+
+:- object(hello_world).
+
+	% the initialization/1 directive argument is automatically executed
+	% when the object is loaded into memory:
+	:- initialization((nl, write('********** Hello World! **********'), nl)).
+
+:- end_object.