I'm trying to understand the reason why you built this thing. Your scratchpad says that you're trying to build a way to model the rules for a "popular strategy game". So, your goal is to create a way to build a referee that can be handed a gamestate and a prospective move and it tells you if the move is legal or not? Please describe your initial impetus a bit more.

Second, where is the code? Or, if you cannot provide that, please provide a complete synopsis for a simple well-known game like Tic-tac-toe or Chess or Go. Give us something that we can work with to see what it is you're trying to do. Your documentation leaves me wondering "Why on earth would I use this?"

Third, is there any prior art (other than XML) which provides this capability? Is Perl5 really the language you should be writing the engine in? Maybe a type-inferencing language like ML would be more appropriate. Maybe a rules-based language like Prolog (q.v. AI::Prolog) would be even better.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re: RFC hierarchic modelling documentation by dragonchild
in thread RFC hierarchic modelling documentation by BerntB

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