overloading
- Posted by gertie at visionsix.com Mar 11, 2003
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I feel this overloading thread is so important, with Eu's objects and nested sequences, i feel i should pass this along, from http://www.cyc.com/rkf/meld-overview.html In order to express real-world expertise and even just plain old common sense knowledge, however, we have had to introduce expressive powers far beyond those of mortal first-order logic. However, for simplicity MELD's syntax follows as closely as possible first-order predicate calculus -- the language of formal logic -- so, e.g., modals appear just like any other predicate but with one or more of their arguments "quoted"; i.e., with a complete assertion appearing in place of an argument. , which is a neat trick that is difficult or impossible in most languages. But the things Eu lacks to contend in the same arena as Cyc is string execution and knowing what it knows (what vars names, what procedure names, that sorta thing), which the "toy" language mirc and Lua can do.. Kat