This morning I had some inspiration about my home in lambdaMOO.
The last few weeks my goal statements have been something like: Well
you know, there's common lisp, and MOO, and clim application frame
commands, and emacs...!
However I feel like I've put these into order a bit.
Firstly, a MOO is not a MUD nor a MUSH. In a MOO, everything in the
world is made in MOO. Maybe there are some primitive operations to
start with that needed to be there before the first new objects were
written in MOO.
In contrast, a MUD is programmed in a host programming language. It is
not self-hosted.
Nor is it a MUSH: Where an in-game command language is implemented in
the host language, then used for complex activities in-game. Changes
of nature would be programmed in the host language.
So I need to address the separation of MOO, common lisp and clim
commands.
To start with, to preserve the MOO as a MOO, the main functionality
should just be accepting input and passing this through to the MOO
server, and replying with the server's output to me, the player.
In this case I am imagining a clim application-frame interactor with
completions, but basically performing a pass-through to the moo
server via rmoo-mode in emacs (my moo client).
What is the relevance of common lisp to this MOOxperience?
I've got a good one: As well as creating real history by passing
entered text directly to the MOO server and getting the definitively
real responses, which I identify as time contexts, add Sandewall's
presentation of imaginary contexts as a generalisation of time
contexts being conjectures about future times based on my domain
model representations, but also conjectures about what could have
been (imaginary past timelines).
These are imaginary simulations of the actual MOO I am also
literally sitting in, and the day dreaming advises what I will do in
the real history of the MOO (when I finish daydreaming and do
something).
In particular, I expect my daydreaming to resemble my own second
implementation of Sandewall's zookeeper lab from their 2010
cognitive agent intelligences lab, without the intent to recreate
all of Sandewall's novice-5.zip (used in that lab).
My engine will be the world-of-shouting.
This simplification is acceptable because a highly local MOO
history's performed verbs and property changes are more exactly like
the imaginary zoo scenario's world.
(The zookeeper wanders around the zoo feeding animals, cleaning,
detecting and performing medical care for animals, assisting
birthing animals, staying hydrated themselves, entertaining zoo
visitors..).
So the MOO remains a MOO. But in good lisp company, one of my
activities while I am literally in the moo is writing a common lisp
imaginary context simulator of highly local subsets of lambdamoo.
I guess the code will sit in emacs, rather than being mailme'ed from
moo notes.
