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Chatbots => General Chatbots and Software => Topic started by: Zero on July 05, 2018, 10:40:00 am
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Hi,
For authoring chatbots, or anything heavily string-based (like interactive fiction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction)), there's a need for a syntax that would ease as much as possible the writing process of programs that contain a lot of constant strings.
If you break down any syntax to its smallest constituents, you find characters. Every language starts with a flat sequence of characters. The meaning of these characters is then defined to express nesting structures ...etc.
Hence the simplest syntax would be to have one token per line. Indentation doesn't even matter, one token per line is enough (just like a sequence of character is enough) to express structures of any complexity-level.
category
pattern
* told me to say *
template
one of
Why would #1 tell you to say "#2"?
Did you say "#2" after #1 told you to?
end one of
Let's try a good'ol naive fib!
function
fib
arg
number
body
return
if
less than
number
3
then
1
else
sum
fib
substract
number
1
end substract
end fib
fib
substract
number
2
end substract
end fib
end sum
end if
end function
Do you like it korrelan? ;D
Ed: Of course for real usage, indentation makes it readable, if you don't mind applying trim() everywhere.
function
fib
arg
number
body
return
if
less than
number
3
then
1
else
sum
fib
substract
number
1
end substract
end fib
fib
substract
number
2
end substract
end fib
end sum
end if
end function
Applied to consnet:
define
has car
parameters
argument model
argument owner
body
let
a
new empty cons cell
end let
cons cell
cons cell
a
car
end cell
is a
end cell
cons cell
cons cell
a
argument model
end cell
model of car
end cell
cons cell
cons cell
a
argument owner
end cell
belongs to
end cell
end define
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Why not go the extra step and digress right back to assembly code? Lol. ;D
:)