Bug Stomp

Ulrike- with regard to that last exchange you posted- what a shame. Julie's "seek: voo-doo, voodoo, voo doo"
was ignored. zut.

My seek is "the power of (*)". You'd think that would pick up any spelling of voo-doo.

You'd think.
strange

When I tested the routine talking to him in debug, it worked perfectly.

Can you use raw mode to specify "voo-doo"?

tried that

I was just poking around in debug, and "voo-doo" seems to trigger some alarming confusion for the spell-processor -- though debug decided just to treat it as it was, and it spit the word back to me in a (postkey) with no trouble.

I wonder whether conversations are working differently from debug.

http://www.personalityforge.com/botland points to sarpadia-isle.local for some reason.

the phrase "in your dreams" is converted to "no" for some reason.

So is "if only", and "negative", and probably some others. Just like "of course" and "certainly" are interpreted as "yes". If you want your bots to recognize them separately, just give them responses for the separate versions. (The automatic processing can be helpful in seeks where you're specifically looking for yes/no, but doesn't always make sense in other contexts)

Frizella has some xinitiate and xhello phrases with seeks. I'm sure this used to work (she has a xnomatch for her "guess who?" that prompted her to scold people who don't play along, and I'm certain I've seen her use it properly).

However, now none of the xinitiate/xhello seeks work; she goes directly to an xnone.

Maybe I'm hallucinating about these working correctly in the past--can't you have a seek for an xinitiate/xhello phrase?

Also, it seems as though optional word wildcards are no longer working for me. Frizella has this keyphrase:

how many (*) (are there|are|) (in a|per) dozen
<0>
It works if I ask:
How many eggs are there in a dozen?
How many eggs are in a dozen?

It doesn't work if I ask:
How many eggs in a dozen?
How many eggs per dozen?