The only top-level imports now are needed for inheritance relationships.
The only function-level imports are HACKS that I need to FIXME; they
all `from context import context as ctx` and then fetch whatever they
actually need from the `ctx` just as if `ctx` had been passed in by the
caller instead of fetched from this magical global storage.
I think the reason the temperature logic was so confused in the old code
is because the Java code has a class `Temperature` that is used for
graphical display *and* two variables in `formulas` that are used for
most of the actual math. But somewhere along the line, some of the code
in `formulas.java` started reading from `Temperature.value` as well.
So the Python code was just faithfully copying that confusion.
The actual abstraction here is a very simple "temperature" object
with a stored value. It can be "clamped" to 100.0 for a given period.
The only complication is that one of the codelets (the rule-transformer
codelet) wants to get access to the "actual value" of the temperature
even when it is clamped.
The Python rule-transformer codelet also had a bug: it was accidentally
setting `temperature.value` on the `temperature` module instead of on
the `temperature.temperature` object! This turned some of its behavior
into a no-op, for whatever that's worth.
Lastly, the calculation of `finalTemperature` in the main program can
now report 100.0 if the answer is found while the temperature is clamped.
I don't fully understand why this didn't happen in the old code.
I've hacked around it with `temperature.last_unclamped_value` for now,
but I should TODO FIXME.
There is a bugfix in here as well: one of the probabilities was
being taken the wrong way around. The result should have been to
make single-letter groups very often, I guess? Fixing this bug
doesn't show any change in Copycat's macro behavior, except that
it seems like average temperatures have gotten hotter.
Should be no functional change, but this gets rid of one circular
import (some codelet methods need a pointer to the coderack, but
they should be getting that pointer from their caller, not from
the global scope) and a lot of reflection-magic.
Before this patch, `coderackPressures.updatePressures()` was always
a no-op, as evidenced by the until-now-harmless misspelling of Python's
list `remove` operation as `removeElement`.
I can't tell if this broke anything; my tests still pass.
Without this patch, `python main.py abc aabbcc milk` will reliably crash.
I believe what happens here is that we initialize all the slipnodes and
everything, and then `slipnet.predecessor` becomes `None`, which means
that if that concept ever arises on its own (vs. arising as the "opposite"
of "successor"), we'll be passing around `None` instead of a proper `Slipnode`
and everything goes sideways.
This line doesn't correspond obviously to anything in the Java code,
so I think it's just bogus --- an experiment in "brain damage" that was
accidentally committed?
This makes the output of the program more closely resemble that of the
original Copycat described in "FCCA" page 236:
> [T]he average final temperature of an answer can be thought of as
> the program's own assessment of that answer's quality, with lower
> temperatures meaning higher quality.
For example, running `python main.py abc abd ijk 100` produced the
following output:
ijl: 98 (avg temp 16.0)
jjk: 1 (avg temp 56.3)
ijk: 1 (avg temp 57.9)
And for `python main.py abc abd ijkk 100`:
ijkkk: 2 (avg temp 19.8)
ijkl: 51 (avg temp 28.1)
ijll: 46 (avg temp 28.9)
djkk: 1 (avg temp 77.4)
