[alicebot-developer] Normalization of predicates?

[Helio Perroni Filho]

While reading the topic on Conditional Elements in the
AIML specification, I was left with a doubt. The
specification says that a condition is availed in
terms of whether a given value "matches" the value of
a given predicate -- the use of the word "matches"
suggesting that exact equality is not demanded.
ProgramD certainly seems to agree to that, as it
performs some transformations in the value of
predicates before comparing them to condition values.

So my question is: is it needed to perform input
normalization on a predicate value before comparing it
to a condition value? If yes, must it go through the
whole set of normalizations, or just pattern-fitting?

-- 
Ja mata ne.
Helio Perroni Filho



	
	
		
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