MeTTa on the AtomSpace

The MeTTa concept can be implemented on top of the AtomSpace. This repo contains a proof-of-concept.

Status

Version 0.0.1

A fraction of the MeTTa language can be easily imported as Atomese. The code here is a proof of concept of this mapping. At this time, only the simplest mapping is done: the declaration of functions.

The code "works"; see the MeTTa example for a working demo.

Architecture

This code makes use of the "Foreign Abstract Syntax Tress" (ForeignAST) code in the base AtomSpace. This AST code also supports a proof-of-concept for DataLog. See https://github.com/opencog/atomspace/tree/master/opencog/atoms/foreign

TODO

Implement match, ground, and multivalued propagation.

match takes some space, a pattern, and a template does two-sided matching of the pattern on the space (i.e. unification) and fills in the bindings in the template, and returns all results. So, like MeetLink but it also unifies. The unifier code in the opencog/unify git repo can be used for that.
ground takes some Python/C/Rust function and binds it to a symbol This is handled in the base AtomSpace, with the lib: wrapper. It just needs to be exposed here.
Multivalued propagation means a function can return more than one thing, and its arguments can be multi-valued too. It will expand that appropriately. So, for example, (= A x); (= A y); !(P A A) returns {(P x x), (P x y), (P y x), (P y y)} Cartesian product.

Prerequisites

To build the MeTTa layer, the packages listed below are required.

AtomSpace

The OpenCog AtomSpace.
https://github.com/opencog/atomspace
It uses exactly the same build procedure as this package. Be sure to sudo make install at the end.

Building

Be sure to install the pre-requisites first! Perform the following steps at the shell prompt:

    cd to project root dir
    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake ..
    make -j4
    sudo make install
    make -j4 check

Libraries will be built into subdirectories within build, mirroring the structure of the source directory root.

Running

See the examples subdirectory.

opencog / atomspace-metta