Re: JESS: Muilti-line comments

2004-09-07 Thread ejfried
I think Alan Moore wrote: > > > > Another thing I will do in the engine is provide "rule > > properties"; you could thereby turn existing rules on or off. > > This works in a running system, which is even better. > > Is this similar to attributes in other languages? > I think so. > Can jess

RE: JESS: Muilti-line comments

2004-09-07 Thread Alan Moore
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 10:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: JESS: Muilti-line comments > > Another thing I will do in

Re: JESS: Muilti-line comments

2004-09-06 Thread ejfried
I think Mike Ray wrote: > There is some benefit with being compatible with CLIPS (JESS's > ancestor). Some departures are good like replacing COOL with Java for > OO. What is the guiding principle as you look at new features? Is it > JSR compatibility, CLIPS language compatibility or community o

Re: JESS: Muilti-line comments

2004-09-06 Thread ejfried
I think Ross Judson wrote: > I added /* and */ to Jess61p7, so it would be nice if my rule source doesn't > have to change... ;) We can do this for 7.0, but it won't be in 7.0a1, as that's already feature-frozen. I had to think about this for a minute because 7.0 already has the /xxx/ syntax for r

Re: JESS: Muilti-line comments

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Ray
There is some benefit with being compatible with CLIPS (JESS's ancestor). Some departures are good like replacing COOL with Java for OO. What is the guiding principle as you look at new features? Is it JSR compatibility, CLIPS language compatibility or community outcry? On Sep 3, 2004, at 10:52

RE: JESS: Muilti-line comments

2004-09-04 Thread Ross Judson
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: JESS: Muilti-line comments . If we were to add multiline comments to the grammar, would you like to see Java's /* ... */, or something else? -

RE: JESS: Muilti-line comments

2004-09-03 Thread Jason Morris
Hi Ernest, I have to agree with Ross... multiline comments would be great. I don't have a problem using /* ... */ , but perhaps you can provide an option based on the current comment character (;). Thanks, Jason Jason Morris Morris Technical Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: JESS: Muilti-line comments

2004-09-03 Thread ejfried
I think Judson, Ross wrote: > Don't know if it's a part of the 7 spec or not, but (please?) provide > multi-line commenting! Sometimes when I'm working with big nasty rule > definitions, I want to be able to swap stuff in and out really fast... > The Charlemagne IDE does have a "toggle comment"

JESS: Muilti-line comments

2004-09-03 Thread Judson, Ross
Don't know if it's a part of the 7 spec or not, but (please?) provide multi-line commenting! Sometimes when I'm working with big nasty rule definitions, I want to be able to swap stuff in and out really fast... Nice thing about definiing your own language is that you're...defining your own langua