H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Aug 29, 2021 03:46 PM UTC:
I am not completely convinced yet: in your example it is clear that the function definition of .dog is used to generate the output. I think the unexpected result is due to a space missing between * and 2 in the .dog definition.
The problem could be in onlyupper / onlylower, which I use for iterating over the pieces of the player on move for generating moves. This might not recognize the piece labels starting with the period. I guess I would have to loop over all pieces, and just test piece by piece using the fnmatch "*[a-z]*".
Of course it would solve a lot of problems to get rid of this madness of piece sets with non-alphabetic names. If I understood the 'new method' correctly, it would require help of an editor to define a new piece set in a PHP file. Perhaps we could make an adapted version of the 'all pieces' Alfaerie set that assigns sensible labels to all pieces. Then we would never have to use anything else again.
I am not completely convinced yet: in your example it is clear that the function definition of .dog is used to generate the output. I think the unexpected result is due to a space missing between * and 2 in the .dog definition.
The problem could be in onlyupper / onlylower, which I use for iterating over the pieces of the player on move for generating moves. This might not recognize the piece labels starting with the period. I guess I would have to loop over all pieces, and just test piece by piece using the fnmatch "*[a-z]*".
Of course it would solve a lot of problems to get rid of this madness of piece sets with non-alphabetic names. If I understood the 'new method' correctly, it would require help of an editor to define a new piece set in a PHP file. Perhaps we could make an adapted version of the 'all pieces' Alfaerie set that assigns sensible labels to all pieces. Then we would never have to use anything else again.