Actions overriding existing rules

[madeso]

From the syntax it looks like the actions are specific to the "rule call" and not globally set, but running this grammar in the online editor it looks to global.

{
"origin":"I love #[animal:#cat#]say# and #say#",
"say":"#animal.s#",
"animal": "dog",
"cat":"cat"
}

In the online editor this outputs: "I love cats and cats", and not what I would expect (I love cats and dogs).

To get the result that I want, the documentation suggests I need to use a POP before the second call, like this:

"origin":"I love #[animal:#cat#]say# and #[animal:POP]say#",

But this doesn't change anything, it still outputs "I love cats and cats".

What is the correct behavior here?

[galaxykate]

I don't remember how it behaves in this specific Tracery version, but the original intention was for push actions inside of the tags ie "#[animal:#cat#]say#" was to push a rule, and then autopop it once the tag finished expanding. Actions by themselves "[animal:#cat#] #say#" just push, but don't autopop.

Eventually though, I unofficially deprecated the autopop: no-one seemed to be using that functionality, and it made the book-keeping of push/pop more error-prone. For Tracery2, I'm leaving it out entirely. The syntax of putting [] inside ## conflicts with some of the new tracery2 features, but I think this is the only bit of tracery syntax that's been dropped/changed.

[galaxykate]

If you have a compelling use case for autopop, though, LMK! I don't want to take away features lightly.

[madeso]

There is no use case, except for me figuring out and writing unit tests for my implementation :)