Revision history for Perl extension Chatbot::Alpha.

2.05 Fri Jan 23 11:24:00 2009

• This module is officially obsolete, and this is just a revision

  release so that the documentation urges users use RiveScript instead.

2.04 Mon Dec 19 15:42:00 2005

• Fixed up some Perl warnings within the code.
• Renamed the example script to 'example.pl' to not confuse Makefile.

2.03 Sat Dec 17 12:17:00 2005

• Added ~REGEXP command.
• Added {random} tag.
• Added more information about #CODE on manpage.
• Updated Chatbot::Alpha::Syntax to support the new ~REGEXP command.
• Applied a patch to Syntax.pm to hopefully make automatic installation

  run more smoothly.

2.02 Thu Oct 27 10:57:30 2005

• Mostly bug fixes in this release:
• Added 'verify' argument to the new() constructor. If 1 (default),

  Chatbot::Alpha::Syntax is run on all files loaded. Set to 0 to avoid syntax checking (not recommended).

• Fixed regexp bug with {formal}, {sentence}, {uppercase}, and {lowercase}.

  They should now function correctly even if their values have odd characters in them that would've previously screwed up the regexp parser.

• Chatbot::Alpha::Syntax updated. See its manpage for details.
• Rearranged a bit of the code so that <input> and <reply> would process

  before string tags.

2.01 Thu Oct 13 15:23:00 2005

• Added string tags {formal}, {sentence}, {uppercase}, {lowercase}
• Added tags <input> and <reply> and alias <star>.
• Fixed conditionals bug (conditionals wouldn't increment correctly so

  only the last condition remained in memory. Now multiple conditions can be used for one trigger... i.e. comparing gender to male/female in two different conditions).

2.00 Thu Oct 6 18:53:00 2005

• Added some AIML emulation:
  • In-reply redirections (like <srai>):

    + * or something

    • Or something. {@<star1>}
• "That" kind of support.

  + i hate you

  • You're really mean... =(

                + sorry
                % youre really mean
                - Don't worry--it's okay. :-)
        - Renamed all methods to be alternatingCaps instead of with underscores.
        - Chatbot::Alpha::Syntax supports the newly-added commands.
        - Fixed conditionals, should work more efficiently now:
                - Format changed to *VARIABLE=VALUE::HAPPENS
                - Does numeric == for numbers, or eq for strings... = better matching.

1.71 Sat Oct 1 14:01:00 2005

• Sorting method reprogrammed for more efficient sorting.

1.70 Wed Aug 17 13:47:35 2005

• Chatbot::Alpha::Syntax added.
• ^ command added.
• Module keeps filenames and line numbers internally, so on internal

  errors such as 'Deep Recursion' and 'Infinite Loop' it can point you to the source of the problem.

• $alpha->search() method added.

1.61 Sat Aug 6 14:43:00 2005

• Completed Chatbot::Alpha::Sort module.

1.40 Wed May 4 14:54:00 2005

• Fixed major bug: being converted to (.?) wasn't a global replace, so

  thus far reply triggers could only contain a single *.

1.30 Tue Feb 15 16:12:00 2004

• Added capability for topics.

1.10 Thu Dec 23 14:20:23 2004

• Added the "#" command.
• Fixed bugs in reply matching.

1.00 Wed Sep 6 16:22:40 2004

• original version; created by h2xs 1.23 with options

  -X -n Chatbot::Alpha