Pawn-75 Useage As It Begins
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I personally am using my Sandewall's software-individuals just like this right now.
1. Goals
- Dogfood dogfood dogfood.
- Ideally I only want to have one skill
- Every time I practice that one skill
- I get better at all of my just one skill.
- I hate solving the same problem the same way the month after I did it last time.
- It is not acceptable to be able to remember or look up or reverse engineer how it worked out last time. This has the surprising implication that writing a program or package is not very good in that it is a way to do more work in the future, rather than an alleviation thereof.
- I would like knowledge of the problem to proactively solve future manifestations of the same problem.
2. Harsh Realities being faced here and now
- Setup a new software individual
- Freeform knowledge representation i.e. dynamic typing
- Do something
3. Living those
3.1. Cloning Pawn-75 and "making an individual"
git clone https://codeberg.org/tfw/pawn-75.git mkdir -p leocommunity/ cp -r Pawn-75/Pawn-75 leocommunity/Screwlispbot
3.2. Running Screwlispbot
Sandewall's system uses relative paths to figure out what individual's which agent is acting and what they can do.
cd leocommunity/Screwlispbot/demus/Process/main/ clisp -E ISO-8859-1 -modern
demus is the small-demo agent. Now in lisp
(load #p"../../../remus/Startup/cl/acleo.leos") (cle)
remus is the kernel who enlivens other agents. Now we are in the read-line based executive and probably see the ses.001) prompt.
3.3. Knowledge About Groceries
crek groceries-kb loadk groceries-kb setk groceries-kb crefil green-groceries
- Creating
crekthe new groceries-kb knowledgebase loadking it I guesssetking it as activecrefilcreating an entityfile for green-groceries
3.3.1. A fruit type
put fruit type thingtype
put fruit attributes {has-colors has-mouthfeel}
addmember (get green-groceries contents) fruit
writefil green-groceries
- Fruit are a type of thing
- The attributes defined as of interest here for whatever a fruit is are has-colors, implicitly a set, and has-mouthfeel, I guess a symbol.
- Add the fruit thingtype entity to the green-groceries entityfile contents allowing us to have entities of the new type, fruit as defined here.
- Writing that change
3.3.2. Adding an apple
put apple type fruit
put apple has-colors {green red yellow}
put apple has-mouthfeel crisp
addmember (get green-groceries contents) apple
writefil green-groceries
Hopefully this was self-explanatory with reference to the fruit type we added.
3.3.3. Sequence of actions on a session state variable
Sandewall observes that this is something people often want to see as doable that is basically less useful, but you can do it, so here.
ssv .to-add banana
ssv .colors {yellow, green}
ssv .mouthfeel mushy
soact [put .to-add type fruit] [put .to-add has-colors .colors] [put .to-add has-mouthfeel .mouthfeel]
addmember (get green-groceries contents) .to-add
writefil green-groceries
I ended up writing my own version of script entities, but soact demonstrates the possibility of a script of actions "just like I entered each one in sequence until finished or a failure", as well as using .session-state-variables. Note the ssvs are inlined eagerly.
If you have a way of repeating previous commands easily as I imagine your lisp environment does, this could be used to add pears after bananas just by changing the ssvs. Note I am deliberately avoiding Defining New Actions here.
Notably pressing up probably works for getting previous commands in gnu clisp, which we are using.
3.3.4. green-groceries looks like
---------------------------------------------------------
-- green-groceries
[: type entityfile]
[: latest-written "2025-04-25/07:44.+12"]
[: contents <green-groceries fruit apple banana pear>]
[: changed-since-archived t]
[: nullvalued {has-purpose has-author requires mustload removed-entities leos-extension has-profile overlay-on overlay-types overlay-own leos-use dont-display sections local-ents purpose author latest-archived-entity latest-rearchived}]
---------------------------------------------------------
-- fruit
[: type thingtype]
[: attributes {has-colors has-mouthfeel}]
[: nullvalued {description subsumed-by has-attributes has-categories create-proc registr-proc latest-rearchived}]
---------------------------------------------------------
-- apple
[: type fruit]
[: has-colors {green yellow red}]
[: has-mouthfeel crisp]
[: latest-rearchived nil]
---------------------------------------------------------
-- banana
[: type fruit]
[: has-colors {yellow green}]
[: has-mouthfeel mushy]
[: latest-rearchived nil]
---------------------------------------------------------
-- pear
[: type fruit]
[: has-colors {green brown}]
[: has-mouthfeel rough]
[: latest-rearchived nil]
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4. Toodles.
Well, let us leave it there for now. We can persistingly store knowledge in our own software-individual.
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