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The latest download for the ASTRA Programming Language, which is available
as a plugin to the Eclipse IDE, can be obtained from:

http://astralanguage.com/update

Description:

ASTRA 3.0 is a complete rewrite of the ASTRA interpreter that removes all use of reflection at
runtime. The current version of the language contains all the basic features of ASTRA:

• AgentSpeak style plan rules
• Teleo-Reactive functions
• Partial plans
• Typed variables
• API definition through annotated Java classes
• Integration with EIS and CARTAGO
• Adheres to and integrated with Java Namespace... read more

Signals are events that are generated by Cartago artifacts. They will be modelled in ASTRA as custom events @cartago(signal, formula f) where f is a predicate representing the signal.

e.g. for the Counter artifact, there is a tick signal - this would take the form:

@cartago(signal, tick())

to make this work, i will need to refactor CartagoPropertyEvent to be CartagoEvent and to add the signal type...... read more