Re: JESS: Dealing with non-numeric values in numeric functions

2008-06-18 Thread Ernest Friedman-Hill
Advice could be the easiest way to do it. Writing your own comparisons in Java would be complicated and in Jess it would be quite hard to do a whole set (since you'd need to use the functions you were replacing). Advice would be pretty simple. I think this is all you'd need to do: (defadv

JESS: Dealing with non-numeric values in numeric functions

2008-06-18 Thread rrogers
I have a case where I have a User Function that typcally returns a Number but can return NIL. If I have a rule that uses the > function, I get a "Not a number" exception. I'd like to handle this in the SQL NULL sort of way, which is to say, NIL cannot be compared to anything successfully (i.e. it