[alicebot-archcomm] modest proposal

[Noel Bush]

Since everyone is being so agreeable :-), I'll point out several
problems with this:

1. There's no explanation why it's necessary.
2. As a label choice, "var" is regressive from "name".  The latter is a
whole word, but the former is not.  AIML is supposed to be easy to
learn; one characteristic of things that are easy to learn is that they
avoid abbreviations.
3. There's a lot of existing AIML already in the world.  We already went
through a lot of discussion about several alternative proposed syntaxes,
and settled on some forms that seem to work (at least no one has yet
voiced objections) and people have been using those for some time now. 
Moving to "deprecate" something before a standard is even finalized
[!!!] will waste time and/or money for people who have to change
existing AIML to fit, and will suggest that the word "standard" has
little meaning for us....

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 05:10, Dr. Richard S. Wallace wrote:
> Deprecate 'name=' in favor of 'var'= in <set> and <get>.
> 
> E.g. write <set var="name">Dorothy</set> instead of
> <set name="name">Dorothy</set>.
> 
> Dr. Rich
> 
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