[5362] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: comp.agents? (was: Dylan Agents)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathaniel Borenstein)
Fri Aug 26 09:35:48 1994
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 15:10:42 +0200
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From: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@nsb.fv.com>
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Excerpts from www-talk: 26-Aug-94 comp.agents? (was: Dylan Ag.. "Steven
D. Majewski"@elv (5362)
> However, I'm not convinced that the safe-tcl method would work well
> for other, more general types of agents. ( I haven't studied it in
> depth, but there does seem to be too much dependence on pop up
> warning dialogs, etc., but maybe that's not as essential to the core
> facility as it looks. )
Not to pick nits, but there's actually NO dependence on such things at
all. One of the innovations of Safe-Tcl was parameterizing the user
interface capability of the language into packages known as "interface
styles". You can have a graphical interface style (the one you
mention), a terminal-oriented style, or (for non-interactive settings)
none at all. The interface styles may be queried at run time, so that a
running program may evaluate the available user interaction facilities
and decide how best to use whatever facilities happen to be present. --
Nathaniel
