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Subject: Re: JESS: Proposed feature
I think James C. Owen wrote:
Ernest:
Let me see if I can understand what we're actually saying here: As
written below, since ?fact is being
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Subject: Re: JESS: Proposed feature
I think James C. Owen wrote:
Ernest:
Let me see if I can understand what we're actually saying here: As
written below, since ?fact is being modified in the RHS of the rule
then the rule will be placed on the agenda as available
Hello ejfried,
Sunday, January 05, 2003, 6:20:37 AM, you wrote:
ecsg Hi Folks,
ecsg Very often, people post questions equivalent to the following to this
ecsg list:
ecsg Why does this cause an infinite loop?
ecsg (defrule my-rule
ecsg ?fact - (fact (slot ?x))
ecsg =
ecsg
Hi there,
I personally think that this actually works around the basic idea of a
fact/rule system like Jess - a rule fires whenever all its conditions
are met and this will be tested whenever the facts in question are
modified. In other words - the behavior as it is right now is absolutely
I think Thomas Gentsch wrote:
What I would find favourable is a modified behavior in a way, that a
rule gets activated by a modified fact *only* if a slot applicable to
the rule had been changed...
Yes, this one has been brought up quite a bit. I've unfortunately not
been able to think of a
Ernest:
Let me see if I can understand what we're actually saying here: As written
below, since ?fact is being modified in the RHS of the rule then the rule will
be placed on the agenda as available to be fired again, even though the
recursion principle would otherwise have removed the rule from
I think James C. Owen wrote:
Ernest:
Let me see if I can understand what we're actually saying here: As written
below, since ?fact is being modified in the RHS of the rule then the rule will
be placed on the agenda as available to be fired again, even though the
recursion principle would
Hi Folks,
Very often, people post questions equivalent to the following to this
list:
Why does this cause an infinite loop?
(defrule my-rule
?fact - (fact (slot ?x))
=
(modify ?fact (slot (+ ?x 1
and then we have to explain why this happens, and how to avoid it
