Unoffical Production System



Feb 2011 version 0.4 (UPS-0.3)
Aug 2008


UPS (uPS-99)

Unoffical Production System
1999 Glenn Takanishi

uPS's original code is from Dirk Kalp's CParaOPS5 released 1990 into
the public domain.  


LHS        ==>  RHS
if (condition), then (action)

The production system loop follows the Match->Resolve->Action, MRA, cycle
or path.  The principle software components supporting the MRA cycle are
embedded in the match.c, resolve.c and action.c modules.


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A wme is printed out in the standard attribute and value format
(e.g., ^color red).  The print format can be switched back to vector
by using the -z0 switch on the cmd line or using the top level command,
wmefmt, when using the command interpreter. 

Commands and switches can be determined by using the help command.
The significant ones are:

Litbind 
Classbind


The switch "-y" allows the user to specify how large
a symbol table to allocate. This increases the flexibility of the 
system and allows the user to optimize the memory usage without having to 
meddle around in the source code. The size of symbol table is specified 
in terms of the maximum number of symbols.

The switch "--" causes the rest of the commandline arguments to be passed
to the routine in ops_user_init(). This routine and the correspoding routine
it ops_user_exit() are supplied to 
facilitate the embedding of the OPS5 system in other programs.
These routines are defined as bf no-op routines in user.c and are to
be filled by the user to perform application-specific initialization
and clean-up respectively.


The compiler supports an additional switch ``-n''.
This switch allows the user to partition the output file into multiple
files which can then be compiled and linked together. This is especially
useful for ops5 since many C compilers choke on large arrays that
are generated for RHS actions. 

ops5 -n150 weaver.l 

will partition the file weaver.l into smaller files containing no more than
150 productions per file and then compile them into seperate C files
(weaver.c, weaver1.c, weaver2.c etc.). See the file "rubik.cmd.MACH" in the 
"lib" subdirectory (or "rubik.cmd" in "programs" after you've
configured the system) for details and an example.



8-2-08

cd ./ops5/demo
cmd ttt
ttt (play tic-tac-toe)