Is anyone familiar with the AMB project, installable from SqMap catalog?
I got excited by the description's assertion that "it can do incredible things" (it even provided an example. After reading the description, tests, code, and references, I have an inkling what it does, but don't quite understand what is "incredible" about it and don't want to miss the magic!!
The catalog description is:
This is the "ambigous", "nondeterminist", "angelic" operator aka amb
... more seriously described as a declarative control flow statement able to enumerate over finite domains all values that make a program terminate. It uses continuations to walk the tree of possible tuples, backtracking when the program fails.
The amazing thing is the simplicity of the code: four short or very short methods on the instance side, the class side methods only providing syntactic sugar.
And it can do incredible things such as:
AMB assert: [:string :n :char | (string occurrencesOf: char) = n] over: #('maman' 'barbapapa' 'guiliguili' 'arthur' 'chtulu') and: #(2 4 1) and: #($m $b $a $i $u)
See AMBTest for more magic.
I would have been unable to implement this by myself ! This is a port of the code by Dorai Sitaram which is the reference documentation for amb:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme-Z-H-16.html#node_cha...
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