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Talk:Robots.txt
yay ^V^ --Yayimhere2(school) (talk) 15:38, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
the esolang is probably incomplete
i noticed some flaws when writing the wiki page draft, i propose these fixes:
- crawler registers are indexed by preceding r before the crawler uuid
- remove tree uuids, those are actually unused
- channeled subprograms can apply strings that are not from trees
F(x), x is a string - add a built-in function for destroying nodes, and maybe an another one for destroying crawlers
what do you think? Dragoneater67mobile (talk) 14:27, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- I don't see why destruction is needed(crawlers would just die when they get move out of the tree, downwards), for crawler UUID's, lets just use a separate set of symbols as a base for both the octal, and crawler UUID's. --Yayimhere2(school) (talk) 14:45, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- ok, i applied some changes, but what kind of a set, perhaps, chinese characters? or smth else? Dragoneater67mobile (talk) 15:23, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- also, crawlers cant move out of bounds, they only can move to a child node that they just created, but i like your idea, in which case, G(x) could be split into G(x), which only creates and M(x)(y), which moves crawler x to node y, that would also fix the problem of node uuids being unused Dragoneater67mobile (talk) 15:25, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Works for me!!! I think using Chinese would be nice! Though at that point digits should just be replaced with the first nine letters of the greek alphabet, then everythings alphabetical. Also, unrelated, but I like [] over (), would it be fine with you to replace em? --Yayimhere2(school) (talk) 16:36, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- excellent!1!!11!!! feel free to edit the page to explain how the new alphabets are used --dragoneater67 contribs talk 10:57, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
- Great! maybe later lmao --Yayimhere2(school) (talk) 11:46, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
- i moved the page to the main namespace as i consider it to be mostly complete, anyway, could you document the halt condition you mentioned earlier in the emails? --dragoneater67 contribs talk 18:08, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Nice! yes I can:) --Yayimhere2(school) (talk) 19:46, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- i moved the page to the main namespace as i consider it to be mostly complete, anyway, could you document the halt condition you mentioned earlier in the emails? --dragoneater67 contribs talk 18:08, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Great! maybe later lmao --Yayimhere2(school) (talk) 11:46, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
- excellent!1!!11!!! feel free to edit the page to explain how the new alphabets are used --dragoneater67 contribs talk 10:57, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
- Works for me!!! I think using Chinese would be nice! Though at that point digits should just be replaced with the first nine letters of the greek alphabet, then everythings alphabetical. Also, unrelated, but I like [] over (), would it be fine with you to replace em? --Yayimhere2(school) (talk) 16:36, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
Publishing the emails?
Since this is a wiki meant for documentation of also history, could I perhaps publish the emails to somewhere and link to that place? Feel like it could just be fun to publish. --Yayimhere2(school) (talk) 06:35, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- sure ! --dragoneater67 contribs talk 06:45, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Great!!! --Yayimhere2(school) (talk) 06:48, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Proto-robots.txt
Looking back at the emails, it could be funny at some point to collect the older ideas we had (i.e the first version of everything), and construct like a sort of proto-robots.txt. I might try that at some point --Yayimhere2(school) (talk) 07:01, 7 August 2026 (UTC)