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[Ari Heljakka <ari.heljakka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Linas, please note the lower-case 'a' vs. 'A'.
The class 'atom' is in a namespace of reasoning or PTL or PLN, and 
predates the whole of opencog code.

Regarding vtree, I don't have the time to explain it right now.

-A

Linas Vepstas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2008/11/1 Joel Pitt <joel.pitt@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > 1. You've mentioned a couple of times that the atom class is obsolete.
> > Do vtrees now essentially fulfill all the tasks expected of the atom
> > class in PLN, such that it's just a matter of replacing atoms with
> > vtrees in most places (and maybe making a few changes to the methods
> > called etc.)...
>
> I'm coming in very late to what must have been a long
> discussion, but ... what is a vtree, and why would it replace
> an "atom class"?
>
> Perhaps I'm naive; currently, opencog has a class called
> "Atom" that is a base class for Node and Link ...surely,
> this is not going away?
>
> I'm representing a broad variety of relationships using
> Nodes and Links, does this "vtree" stuff affect me? Or
> is this more about some internal representation used
> only in the guts of PLN, and has no impact to outsiders?
>
> --linas


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