[alicebot-archcomm] RE: [alicebot-archcomm]Attribute var

[Kino Coursey]

Also "the memory which is modified by <set> (TMWIMBS)" acts as the same as
that dirty word of CS, the GLOBAL VARIABLE. While local to a user or user
session, relative to the AIML categories during that session they are
global. Big deal?? To most maybe not, but I really do think they act like
global variables. This is more of a problem when dealing with <srai> and
<star/>. It would be nice to have a true temporary variable local to a
category, then <srai> could be fully recursive.

So, <set var="name"> ,<set variable="name"> , or even <set
globalvariable="name"> if you want it to read properly would  be ok (at
least for me).

Kino


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Subject: [alicebot-archcomm] RE: [alicebot-archcomm]Attribute var


(diverting back to the discussion thread)

So <set property="name">Fred</set> looks good ...

And what happens when the property is varied (by Deed Poll :-)  ) -- doesn't
that make it (a) variable?

Andrew.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Baer [mailto:jonbaer@digitalanywhere.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:51 PM
> To: alicebot-archcomm@list.alicebot.org
> Subject: Re: [alicebot-archcomm] [VOTE] Attribute var (Jon)
>
>
> I vote NO ... here are my reasons:
>
> Im changing my inital vote for a few reasons ... first ...
> it's not a "variable"
> by definition.
>
> a symbol (like x or y) that is used in mathematical or
>           logical expressions to represent a variable quantity
>
> There is no quantity dealing with it.
>
> When I original switched <set_whatever> to <set
> name="whatever"> the definition
> is that it is the name of a "property" as such:
>
> of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or
>         affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals;
>         peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or
>         general; as, personal comfort; personal desire.
>
> The other reason which never quite made it was because <set>
> and <get> were part
> of list management that also included <add>, <remove> with
> indexing and
> searching.  All of which where named list properties relating
> to a single user
> (or identification).
>
> - Jon
>
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