Re: "Expressions"

Gregory Abowd ([email protected])
Wed, 26 Apr 1995 18:06:08 -0400

In a recent message Martin wrote:
> At the Georgia Tech Mastermind meeting Monday, we talked briefly about
> "expressions". From my understanding, these will eventually describe the
> dynamics of data in MRL, and will be used both for boolean applicability
> conditions and for describing simple changes to the objects.
>
> I have developped and implemented one such language as part of my thesis
> research, called the "Elements, Events & Transitions" language. The
> implementation is in C++ and contains the langauge representation, a
> parser, and an interpreter.
>

It would be great if Martin would spend some time at our next meeting
mapping out the relationship he sees between his thesis work and MRL.
I'm not sure I understand the use of expressions in MRL and hearing
the potential connection with Martin's work might make things clearer
in my mind.

Spencer, can we put this on the docket for Monday's meeting, or the
next one?

Thanks,
Gregory