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Clarify use case for timeless predicates #107

Open sunsided opened 1 year ago

sunsided commented 1 year ago

This updates the section on :timeless predicates in PDDL 1.2 that curently states

It's not clear why you would need to model [...]

It now adds that due to the closed world nature, anything not specified is implicitly false. By adding a timeless predicate, not only is it now visible to the domain, it also cannot be changed (unlike a regular predicate in e.g. a problem's initial state).