[alicebot-archcomm] Another missing part of the A.L.I.C.E. architecture document

[Sandro Golinelli]

my opinion is:

An AIML interpreter may output a user defined error message at user option, 
when a match is not found.

shall i move this as a proposal ?

--
sandro

At 07.05 05/03/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Yep, another interesting boundary condition in AIML.  What is the
>definition of the empty robot?
>
> > The 1.01 working draft states:
> >
> > "If the root Nodemapper contains a key "*" and it points to a leaf node,
> > then the algorithm is guaranteed to find a match."
> >
> > But it does not include any statement about what will happen if no "*"
> > key is in the AIML set and a match is not found.
> >
> > Program N just outputs an empty line.  I think so does Program D, but it
> > also logs an error.  How do the other versions handle this?
> >
> > Is there some standard way such an event should be interpreted?  Should
> > this behavior be part of the AIML standard?
> >
> > Still cleaning up,
> >   Gary Dubuque
> >   Hip deep in AIML clippings
> >
> >
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