This is correct syntax, although the parens are redundant in this particular situation.<br><br>Technically, this is called a "multi-restriction". Expand it by inserting the field (answer.ID) in front of each relational operator. It's inherited from COBOL :-)<br>
<br>-W<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 March 2011 16:59, ljnelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ljnelson@gmail.com">ljnelson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In case anyone is following along (silent list!), I finally ran the debugger<br>
on JBRULES-2932 and found a suspicious bit of syntax that was accepted by<br>
Drools 5.1.1 but which causes Drools 5.2.0-SNAPSHOT to barf.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES-2932?focusedCommentId=12591856#comment-12591856" target="_blank">https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES-2932?focusedCommentId=12591856#comment-12591856</a><br>
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At issue is the following construction:<br>
<br>
answer.ID ( > 1 && < 4 ) || == 5<br>
<br>
That parenthetical followed by an or-equals looks suspicious to me (dialect<br>
mvel). Although Drools 5.1.1 eats it just fine, should it? I want to tell<br>
my users to write the proper rule syntax; this doesn't look right to me. On<br>
the other hand, if it is proper syntax, I'd rather not change it, as there<br>
are hundreds of rules that use it. :-(<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Laird<br>
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