new links between commands : when, until, ...

[rom1504]

It would be nice to be able to do this kind of thing :

• when <event> do <task>
• repeat <task> until <condition>
• if <condition> do <task>

The syntax of these things might change, I'm not sure what would be really useful.
It would be useful to add examples, to know what is really useful.

[andrewrk]

whoa, meta programming! I never thought to try to do that with a bot. I wonder what you might try to do. Hm.

[andrewrk]

Maybe "when you have low food, eat food"

[vogonistic]

If you have available tasks that can provide functionality, you could have implied actions.

"ensure not hungry" could mean, check isHungry() {this.food < 5} periodically and if it triggers, it looks for something that provides food and picks one of the ways.

[rom1504]

vogonistic: yes, maybe i could do an event hungry and then use when hungry do get food or something like that (food would need to be implemented)
or maybe I could simply implement an ensure yes

[rom1504]

Oh I guess there is no need for an ensure, or maybe just an alias :
ensure <condition> would be repeat if <condition> do <task> done then wait 1000 (I guess a done is needed then...)
Hum, it might be more complicated than that since that task needs to come from somewhere...

[rom1504]

It's better to keep the number of these links (if,repeat,when) small and to use them for many different things I think.

[rom1504]

Examples :

• when :
  • when entity hurt me do attack nearest reachable mob (attack it would be nicer)

[rom1504]

It would be really nice to be able to know what is the latest 'noun' use in the commands in order to be able to do this kind of thing :

• move to nearest reachable mob then attack it
• move to nearest reachable position nearest block log then get it (this one would be harder since there are two potentially useful noun : the nearest reachable position and the nearest block log. This could be resolved by storing both then figuring out which one is the required on with the type of it on get it (a block))

[rom1504]

"whoa, meta programming!" -> didn't thought of it that way before.
But now you thought of it for me (^^) let's use jison :-)

[rom1504]

Lot of things done to make this happen.
There are a lot more things that can be done that way.
Of what we talked here what's left is to do is : ensure, when, it