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This is great news. I thought Inform 7 had a built-in expert system. Does anyone know for sure ?
by whitten 7y ago
This is great news. I thought Inform 7 had a built-in expert system. Does anyone know for sure ?
- skybrian 7y agoIt has a rules engine. I don't think it's the same thing?
- logicprog 7y agoIt reads a lot like a special purpose logic programming language, almost as if it has a prolog engine built in. Expert systems generally use logic programming. I think that's what the GP means. Rules engines are something different AFAICT, (all I get on Google is business related stuff) and seem to use forward chaining, and I'm not sure how you'd get Inform-like behavior with that.
- sp332 7y agoThere are built-in rules for some things, like rooms. If you say "the living room is east of the dining room", then going west from the living room will move you to the dining room. There are libraries of rules for containers, ropes, water, fire, etc.
- dwheeler 7y agoIt's "rulebook based" with support for a simple taxonomy. It is a very different domain specific language. I recommend looking at this to see a programmer's view: http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Inform_7_for_Programmers/Part_1 http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Inform_7_for_Programmers/Par...