[rules-dev] Questions about DSL in 3.2

[Edson Tirelli]

     All,

     I will reintegrate/implement DSL support in drools-compiler, as we 
discussed before, as a pre-processor. I have some questions I would like 
to have your opinion about:

Q1: Is there any reason for the DSL parser to be line based?

Q2: I will make keywords configurable, so you can say "regra" for 
instance (in portuguese) instead of "rule", ok?

Q3: Peter: I'm thinking in copy/port the DSL tree that you created into 
drools-compiler... I think we can leverage it to help create a better 
parser for the DSL, ok?

Q4: do we need everything to be expandable in the DSL? or should we 
simply passthrough anything that is not expandable directly as a chunk 
to the DRL? Example:

DSL:
=====
...
regra ABC
se
   ...
entao
   System.out.println( "BLABLA" );
fim
...
====
 
    Ok, I know that no business user will ever write 
System.out.println(), but it is just just an example. And the keywords 
are in portuguese for you guys to understand it better... ;)

   Thanks for the feeback.

   []s
   Edson

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