Re: [spoon-discuss] Proposal syntax

[Tyler Crosby <tycrosby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Karasek wrote:

> I've been thinking a bit about how to go about automating proposals in 
> order to make Dave happier. There are a few standard actions that 
> should cover most proposals:
>
> Create rule
> Repeal rule
> Replace rule
>
> If we wanted, there are a few additional ones we could use in addition 
> to "replace":
> Change (first/every) occurance of "text" in rule
> Add/remove (paragraph/(sub)section)
>
> Once we decide on what actions are going to be automated, we just have 
> to come up with a format that everyone (including Perl, which will be 
> doing the parsing) is comfortable with. (I'm a CS major, so something 
> I think is perfectly clear may well be gibberish to others.) Some ideas:
>
> Lispish (I'm a fan of this one):
> (createrule
>  (title "Fooing the bar")
>  (keywords foo bar baz)
>  (layer 3)
>  "Players may foo the bar by stating that they do so in a public 
> forum. When this occurs, the bar is said to have been fooed."
> )
I definitely like the above option... so would we send these new 
automationn scripts to some other list, which would cause the database 
to be updated, a message to be sent out to spoon-business, etc.?  And 
would it be able to handle omitting things like assigning keywords and 
layers, so as to just give them default values?

> XMLish (very verbose, probably not the best choice):
> <createrule>
>     <title>Fooing the bar</title>
>     <keywordlist>
>         <keyword>foo</keyword>
>         <keyword>bar</keyword>
>         <keyword>baz</keyword>
>     </keywordlist>
>     <layer>3</layer>
>     Players may foo the bar by stating that they do so in a public 
> forum. When this occurs, the bar is said to have been fooed.
> </createrule>
>
> Another option (perhaps more user-friendly):
> create rule {
>     Fooing the bar
>     Keywords: foo bar baz
>     Layer: 3
>     {
>         Players may foo the bar by stating that they do so in a public 
> forum. When this occurs, the bar is said to have been fooed.
>     }
> }
Although this one is rather nice as well...

> Other options certainly exist; these are just a few ideas I threw 
> together.
>
> Dave, would you mind terribly if had a look at the scripts that 
> currently exist? There are various other things I'd like to look into 
> (for example, on the rules and props pages, have occurances of "Rule 
> #"/"r#" actually be links to that rule). I may be able to find other 
> things to improve as well.
>
> Comments? Ideas? Do people actually _want_ automated props, or would 
> they just prefer to make it a Ministry/Duty to take care of it?
>
> --The Pusher Robot
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