Re: [Minion-general] occurrence can't take a variable as the second argument

[Ian G. <ip...@cs...>]

On 18 Jun 2008, at 21:39, Gregory Maxwell wrote:

> The online docs
> (http://minion.sourceforge.net/htmlhelp/constraints_occurrence.html)
> should probably be updated to note that occurrence() can't take a
> variable as the second argument.

You're right.

>
>
> Is there any plan on changing that


Yes.   Probably not in the next release but in the one after that.

> , ... or less ideally making it
> reifiable (I could get the behavior I want by reifying a copy of the
> static case for each possible value in the domain)?   I can get the
> constraint I want indirectly using aliases, dummy variables,  and
> watchelement but it gets ugly quickly.  Alternatively useful would be
> a constraint that holds a variable equal to the number of occurrences
> of a value in a vector.
>
> Incidentally, since this is my first post here,  I want to say that I
> think minion is fantastic software. It's allowed me to explore an
> number of interesting problems which would have taken too much work
> otherwise.  I like the configuration file format and have found it to
> be quite easy to learn to use, both directly and by writing
> meta-programs that generate input for minion.
>

Thanks very much!

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