Re: [Agentfactory-developer] Active Actions

[David L. <dav...@uc...>]

1) Good idea

2) The second syntax is clearer in its intent. For an action that
produces only one binding, can we have it work without the list too?
i.e.

?x = .println("rem") // single value
[?x,?y] = .coords("rem") // list

On 5 July 2011 10:23, Rem Collier <rem...@uc...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Following up on the recent introduction of "active" actions (i.e.
> actions that can modify the bindings of the associated plan stack), I am
> going to suggest two changes / improvements:
>
> 1) the execute(...) method calls the active action execute method with
> an empty variable list and binding set (this means that, potentially -
> and only if coded correctly - an active action can be
>    used as a "normal" action).
>
> 2) which syntax do you think is better:
>
>     activate(.println("rem"), [?x])) <--- current
>
>     [?x] = .println("rem") <--- alternative
>
> Rem
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