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package AI::MegaHAL;

require DynaLoader;
require Exporter;

use AutoLoader;
use Carp;

use strict;

use vars qw(@EXPORT @ISA $VERSION $AUTOLOAD);

@EXPORT = qw(megahal_setnoprompt
	     megahal_setnowrap
	     megahal_setnobanner
	     megahal_seterrorfile
	     megahal_setstatusfile
	     megahal_initialize
	     megahal_initial_greeting
	     megahal_command
	     megahal_do_reply
	     megahal_learn
	     megahal_output
	     megahal_input
	     megahal_cleanup);

@ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader);
$VERSION = '0.08';

sub AUTOLOAD {
    # This AUTOLOAD is used to 'autoload' constants from the constant()
    # XS function.  If a constant is not found then control is passed
    # to the AUTOLOAD in AutoLoader.

    my $constname;
    ($constname = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://;
    croak "& not defined" if $constname eq 'constant';
    my $val = constant($constname, @_ ? $_[0] : 0);
    if ($! != 0) {
	if ($! =~ /Invalid/ || $!{EINVAL}) {
	    $AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD = $AUTOLOAD;
	    goto &AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD;
	}
	else {
	    croak "Your vendor has not defined AI::MegaHAL macro $constname";
	}
    }
    {
	no strict 'refs';
	# Fixed between 5.005_53 and 5.005_61
	if ($] >= 5.00561) {
	    *$AUTOLOAD = sub () { $val };
	}
	else {
	    *$AUTOLOAD = sub { $val };
	}
    }
    goto &$AUTOLOAD;
}

sub new {
    my ($class,%args) = @_;
    my $self;

    # Bless ourselves into the AI::MegaHAL class.
    $self = bless({ },$class);

    # Make sure that we can find a brain or a training file somewhere
    # else die with an error.
    my $path = $args{'Path'} || ".";
    if(-e "$path/megahal.brn" || -e "$path/megahal.trn") {
	chdir($path) || die("Error: chdir: $!\n");
    } else {
	die("Error: unable to locate megahal.brn or megahal.trn\n");
    }

    # Set some of the options that may have been passed to us.
    megahal_setnobanner() if(! $args{'Banner'});
    megahal_setnowrap()   if(! $args{'Wrap'});
    megahal_setnoprompt() if(! $args{'Prompt'});