OK, answers my question :)<br><br>It is on the "to do" list already.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 April 2011 13:11, Mark Proctor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mproctor@codehaus.org">mproctor@codehaus.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 08/04/2011 12:39, Geoffrey De Smet wrote:<br>
> Related to the modify expression,<br>
> I 've always wondered about this code:<br>
><br>
> rule "MyRule"<br>
> when<br>
> $p : Person(name = "Yoda")<br>
> then<br>
> modify ($p) {<br>
> setAge(300)<br>
> }<br>
> end<br>
><br>
> Doesn't this create an infinite loop? (In my experience it does or at<br>
> least it takes a lot longer)<br>
> Because the modify ($p) schedules any rule using a Person back on the<br>
> agenda to be re-evaluated,<br>
> so also that rule, which is evaluated and executed again, modifying $p<br>
> again, ... hence the infinite loop?<br>
</div>It would, unless you have slot specific - which Jess does. Slot specific<br>
is something I really want to add, I think it will resolve a lot of<br>
recursion problems and make Drools a lot easier to use. I took the slot<br>
specific problem and genericsed it further for "slot listeners". I<br>
discussed this here:<br>
<a href="http://blog.athico.com/2010/07/slot-specific-and-refraction.html" target="_blank">http://blog.athico.com/2010/07/slot-specific-and-refraction.html</a>. I<br>
think Laune added some refinements to this in a mailing list entry<br>
somewhere.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Mark<br>
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