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name: pavlov description: Discover and learn the Pavlov behavioral programming library for Clojure/CLJS. Use when you need Pavlov concepts, bthreads/bprograms, or to locate docs, tests, and docstrings on the classpath.

Pavlov discovery

Pavlov is a Clojure and ClojureScript behavioral programming library inspired by David Harel et al.’s paper "Behavioral Programming". It adapts the original behavioral programming model by running bprograms with a step function.

Choose your path

• Bare-bones API details or quick usage cues: start with docstrings.
• Principles and conceptual background: read the documentation resources. What is behavioral programming? Why is it used?
• Concrete examples: browse tests (see references/access-test-examples.md).

Docstrings (fastest)

• Use clojure.repl/doc in the Clojure REPL on the core namespaces and functions first.

Copy(require '[clojure.repl :refer [doc source find-doc apropos]])

(doc 'tech.thomascothran.pavlov.bthread)
(doc 'tech.thomascothran.pavlov.bprogram.ephemeral)
(doc 'tech.thomascothran.pavlov.bthread/bids)
(doc 'tech.thomascothran.pavlov.bprogram.ephemeral/execute!)

Documentation resources (background)

• Use clojure.java.io and slurp with io/resource.
• All docs live under tech/thomascothran/pavlov-skills/doc/.

Copy(require '[clojure.java.io :as io])

(slurp (io/resource "tech/thomascothran/pavlov-skills/doc/README.md"))
(slurp (io/resource "tech/thomascothran/pavlov-skills/doc/what-is-a-bthread.md"))

Test examples (concrete)

• Once you have a path, read tests with io/resource + slurp.

Copy(require '[clojure.java.io :as io])

(slurp (io/resource "tech/thomascothran/pavlov/bthread_test.cljc"))
(slurp (io/resource "tech/thomascothran/pavlov/bprogram/ephemeral_test.clj"))

For more examples, use references/access-test-examples.md (resource path ./references/access-test-examples.md) to list test sources on the classpath.