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Subject: Re: What constitutes a clone?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:09:28 02/16/05

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On February 16, 2005 at 11:23:58, Charles Roberson wrote:

>
>   What do you mean by "...take the evaluation of..."? Do you mean
>  copy the source code or what I mention in my reply to Bob's post?

I mean generating a source code that give the same result.
copying the source code is impossible when you have a different data structure.

I thought about using that idea for debugging to find cases when my evaluation
is significantly different than an evaluation of another program and I think
that if somebody already did the work of writing code that return the evaluation
of Crafty he may do Crafty personality in his program when the default engine
does not use the evaluation of Crafty and he also may decide to use part of
Crafty evaluation only in some conditions and the question is if one of them is
considered as cloning.

Note that I do not plan to have evaluation of another program even not for
debugging (at least not in the near future) because I do not think that adding
the evaluation of another program is easy.

Uri



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