[rules-dev] Stretching spreadsheets

[Michael Neale]

nice work..
yes "syntax cushioning" is the best term I have heard for this.

I am sure your enhancements would be welcome.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have, at long last, overcome my disinclination against spreadsheets and
> played around a bit.
>
> As one of the incentives (perhaps the main one) for this kind of rule
> authoring appears to be a "syntax" cushioning by spreadsheet entries, I feel
> that additional simplifications might be appreciated. Therefore, I have
> modified some classes in  org.drools.decisiontable.parser, to achieve the
> following, in the area of RuleSet entries:
>
>    - All entries are now repeatable, either by adding more cells to the
>    right of "import" than just one (with a comma-separated list) or by writing
>    more that one "Import" row.
>    - Same for "Variables", "Functions" and "Queries".
>    - All tags ("Import",...) are case insensitive and immune against
>    leading and trailing spaces.
>    - Some user errors don't cause NPE; they throw an exception with an
>    explanatory message
>
> Opinions, please, and should I just release this, or would someone care to
> have a look and test it?
> -W
>
>
>
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