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- Path: sparky!uunet!cbmvax!yoda!ag
- From: ag@yoda.omnicron.com (Keith Gabryelski)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources
- Subject: elisp `animal' program
- Message-ID: <1007@yoda.omnicron.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:59:40 GMT
- Organization: Omnicron Data Systems
- Lines: 119
-
- Probably written too many times in lisp and yet here I am posting this
- one. The ancient game of ``guess the animal''.
-
- There is nothing special about this version of animal. It saves its
- state to ~/.animals.
-
- Interactive entry points are `animal' and `play-animal'. Play-animal
- calls `animal' repeatedly with a boolean request to continue playing.
-
- Written for GZ (where ever she is these days).
-
- Pax, Keith
-
- *--------------------------------------*
-
- (defvar animals-file "~/.animals" "Animal game data file")
-
- (defvar animals-default-data '("a cat" nil nil) "Default data for animal game")
-
- (defvar animals nil
- "Animal game data. A recursive list of the form
- (STRING TRUE-LIST FALSE_LIST) where TRUE-LIST and FALSE-LIST are lists of
- the this form and STRING is either a question posed to the user or a name
- of an animal.")
-
- (defun animal ()
- "Play the game of animal using the variable `animals'"
- (interactive)
- (let (animal-buffer)
- (save-window-excursion
- (if (file-readable-p (expand-file-name animals-file))
- (setq animal-buffer
- (find-file-noselect (expand-file-name animals-file)))
- (progn
- (setq animal-buffer
- (create-file-buffer (expand-file-name animals-file)))
- (set-buffer animal-buffer)
- (erase-buffer)
- (insert (format "%s" animals-default-data))))
- (set-buffer animal-buffer)
- (goto-char (point-min))
- (setq animals (read animal-buffer)))
- (animal-read-string
- "This is the game called animal where you think of an animal
- and I try to guess which one you are thinking of.
-
- Please think of an animal and answer the questions I give you." nil)
- (setq animals (parse-animal-tree animals))
- (save-window-excursion
- (set-buffer animal-buffer)
- (erase-buffer)
- (insert (format "%s" animals))
- (write-file (expand-file-name animals-file)))))
-
- (defun play-animal ()
- "Play the games of animal lots of times"
- (interactive)
- (let (done)
- (while (not done)
- (progn
- (animal)
- (setq done (not (y-or-n-p "Would you like to play again? ")))))))
-
- (defun parse-animal-tree (animal-list)
- "Ask questions about a list (STRING TRUE-LIST FALSE-LIST) until we reach a
- terminal"
- (if (animal-query-user (car animal-list) (null (car (cdr animal-list))))
- (if (null (car (cdr animal-list)))
- (progn
- (message "Thanks for playing.")
- animal-list)
- (list (car animal-list)
- (parse-animal-tree
- (car (cdr animal-list))) (car (cdr (cdr animal-list)))))
- (if (null (car (cdr (cdr animal-list))))
- (animal-give-up animal-list)
- (list (car animal-list)
- (car (cdr animal-list))
- (parse-animal-tree (car (cdr (cdr animal-list))))))))
-
- (defun animal-query-user (question terminal)
- "Query user about information on a particular animal"
- (y-or-n-p (if terminal
- (format "Is it %s? " question)
- (format "%s? " question))))
-
- (defun animal-give-up (animal-list)
- "Given an animal list, query the user for information on a new type
- of animal"
- (let (new-animal new-question)
- (progn
- (setq new-animal
- (animal-read-string "I give up. I need to know a little bit about the animal you are thinking of
- so I won't miss this one next time." "What animal where you thinking of? "))
- (setq new-question
- (animal-read-string
- (format
- "I also need to know how to ask a yes or no question that
- distinguishes %s from %s. Please type in such
- a question (ie, \"Does it have wings\" would be a suitable question to
- distinguish a bird from a cat)."
- new-animal (car animal-list)) "Please type in a question: "))
- (list new-question (list new-animal nil nil) animal-list))))
-
- (defun animal-read-string (buffer-string prompt-string)
- "Open a buffer up, spew some helpul advice and accept a string"
- (let (animal-help-buffer)
- (progn
- (setq animal-help-buffer (get-buffer "*Animal-Help*"))
- (if animal-help-buffer
- nil
- (setq animal-help-buffer (generate-new-buffer "*Animal-Help*")))
- (set-buffer animal-help-buffer)
- (erase-buffer)
- (insert buffer-string)
- (goto-char (point-min))
- (display-buffer animal-help-buffer)
- (if (not (null prompt-string))
- (read-string prompt-string)))))
-