Re: [Newbies] AMB

>> 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_chap_14

It seems the proper address is now
http://ds26gte.github.io/tyscheme/index-Z-H-16.html#node_idx_470

Everything is explained there.


Stef

Stéphane Rollandin wrote
> Everything is explained there.

Thank you for the pointer. I did read the docs, and it's not that I don't
understand the mechanics of using the class, it's just that I don't
understand why people are excited about it. I was wondering what it enables
or makes significantly easier or more powerful that one would bother loading
a project with just those handful of methods. I have a sense that I'm
missing some important meaning here…



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> Thank you for the pointer. I did read the docs, and it's not that I don't
> understand the mechanics of using the class, it's just that I don't
> understand why people are excited about it. I was wondering what it enables
> or makes significantly easier or more powerful that one would bother loading
> a project with just those handful of methods. I have a sense that I'm
> missing some important meaning here…

Well the way I see it is that it allows whole classes of contraint
systems to be handled in a declarative way. That's only one of its
aspect, actually: like all continuation-based construct, it is not too
intuitive at first.

In my own experience, in music composition, I used it for example to
generate the complete set of rhythmic cells of the same length that can
be composed from beats of different values.

Stef