[alicebot-archcomm] topic attribute

Eugene Lebedev alicebot-archcomm@list.alicebot.org
Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:59:26 -0500


What if we make some step to the direction of unification of topic and
category?

    <topic name="just some identificator, but not pattern">
            <pattern> some pattern </pattern>
            ...
    </topic>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Bush" <noel@alicebot.org>
To: <alicebot-archcomm@list.alicebot.org>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 11:42 AM
Subject: [alicebot-archcomm] topic attribute


> Sorry to dwell on the small points :-), but I am feeling like this:
>
> <topic name="SOME PATTERN">
> ...
> </topic>
>
> is very confusing.  Since the name "topic" is part of a predicate that
> associates it with some value, and can be retrieved like:
>
> <get name="topic"/>
>
> Would it not make a great deal more sense for the topic syntax to be:
>
> <topic value="SOME PATTERN">
> ...
> </topic>
>
> ?  Just seems that this would be more consistent.
>
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