Thanks very much Ernest.  That works as a temporary workaround,
allowing us to test out 7.1.  Needless to say though, we do not want
to release our software using patched releases of Jess that may behave
strangely under certain conditions.  Is there a plan for releasing an
official update/point release that will address this backwards
incompatibility? 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Ernest Friedman-Hill
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 5:59 PM
To: jess-users
Subject: Re: JESS: Slot name restrictions

As folks have pointed out already, this restriction is in support of
the new "Java patterns" syntax, which gives special meaning to the
syntax "templateName.slotName". Otherwise, Jess actually doesn't care.

As a temporary measure, you can comment lines 1293 and 1294 in jess/
Jesp.java, and the restriction will simply disappear -- but the new
syntax may behave strangely with templates defined this way.



On Jul 14, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Greenblatt, Alan wrote:

> I see there is a  new restriction with 7.1 that slot names may not 
> contain a period ('.').  We will not be able to upgrade our platform

> to 7.1 as long as this restriction is in place.  We use URI's as
slot 
> names, where periods are accepted and common (e.g. 
> "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI
> ") .  What was the reason around putting in this restriction? Is
there 
> a possibility of removing this restriction or at least providing a 
> runtime option removing the restriction?
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Greenblatt
> VP, Semantic Technologies
> Metatomix, Inc.
> 3 Allied Drive, Ste 210
> Dedham, MA 02026
> (781.907.6766 work
> (617.519.5583 cell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>

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Ernest Friedman-Hill
Informatics & Decision Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories PO Box
969, MS 9012, Livermore, CA 94550 http://www.jessrules.com






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