> In some engelangs one goal might be to be able to describe different
> chemical molecules. Of course systems created to imitate the conventional
> chemical formulas (water = H2O, carbon dioxide = CO2, with the 2's as
> subscripts) can easily be made, but for the engelanger a common goal is to
> reduce ambiguity. And ambiguity can be found when trying to describe...
>
> Isomers. (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomer) So... basically what I'm
> asking (or thinking about) is how to describe molecules, not only by the
> atoms they contain, but also their structure (the bonds). Can you come up
> with anything better that SMILES (see
>
http://www.daylight.com/dayhtml/doc/theory/theory.smiles.html)?
>
> In general, have any of you all included describing graphs (this kind of
> graph:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_%28mathematics%29) in your
> languages. Which traversal method is best?
>
> This problem does not reduce to just reading row by row off of a matrix (I
> hope you know what I mean) where the row and column headers are the
> different vertices because if the graph is not connected and there are
> cycles in either of the parts, it is unknown if one of the parts is inside
> of another or not.
>
> -Leon
>