[alicebot-archcomm] [motion] <shuffle>

[Noel Bush]

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 19:27, Conan Callen wrote:
> 1. Will the <random> remain, or will <shuffle> obsolete <random>

I think <random> should remain.  I actually think that <shuffle> will
turn out to be more useful than <random>, but there's no reason to
remove <random>.

> 2. When the deck is shuffled, it is possible that the last card will be the
> first card after the shuffle. If this is not the desired behavior, you might
> insert some text that says something to the effect "while insuring that the
> last li child returned will not be the first li child returned after the
> shuffle" at the point marked by <INSERTED HERE>.
> 
> then the status of the shuffle is reset  as though none of its li children
> have been returned to the current user by the AIML interpreter for
> the current bot <INSERTED HERE>, and a selection is made
> according to the first rule.

Yes, that's an interesting point.

> 3. Also the link to the Aiml schema on
> http://alicebot.org/committees/aimlSchema.html is broken.

Thanks!