From: Christopher Allan Webber Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 16:11:54 +0000 (-0600) Subject: doc: Some tutorial tweaks. X-Git-Tag: v0.4.0~16 X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9833ecabb267e740134f5bd49663d4c0a872796d;p=8sync.git doc: Some tutorial tweaks. * doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Small tutorial tweaks. --- diff --git a/doc/8sync-new-manual.org b/doc/8sync-new-manual.org index 955e50e..6658c93 100644 --- a/doc/8sync-new-manual.org +++ b/doc/8sync-new-manual.org @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ nothing is going to happen. We can run it like: #+BEGIN_SRC scheme -(run-bot #:username "some-bot-username") ; be creative! +(run-bot #:username "some-bot-name") ; be creative! #+END_SRC Assuming all the tubes on the internet are properly connected, you @@ -253,24 +253,6 @@ so that /other/ actors may participate in communicating with IRC through our IRC bot. Anyway, our current message handler is simply too annoying. -What would be much more interesting is if we could recognize -when an actor could repeat messages /only/ when someone is speaking -to it directly. -Luckily this is an easy adjustment to make. - -#+BEGIN_SRC scheme - (define-method (handle-line (irc-bot ) speaker channel - line emote?) - (define my-name (irc-bot-username irc-bot)) - (define (looks-like-me? str) - (or (equal? str my-name) - (equal? str (string-concatenate (list my-name ":"))))) - (when (looks-like-me?) - (<- (actor-id irc-bot) 'send-line channel - (format #f "Bawwwwk! ~a says: ~a" speaker line)))) -#+END_SRC - -This is relatively straightforward, but it isn't very interesting. What we would really like to do is have our bot respond to individual "commands" like this: @@ -376,7 +358,7 @@ What cool commands can you add? At the time of writing, venture capital awash startups are trying to turn chatbots into "big business"... a strange (and perhaps absurd) thing given chat bots being a fairly mundane novelty amongst hackers - and teenagers everywhere in the 1990s. + and teenagers everywhere a few decades ago. ** Writing our own actors