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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Mark, You made a comment on my JIRA that I thought I'd
post here for discussion:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Mark Proctor commented on
JBRULES-1155:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>---------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>anAnwer is a method/function
that returns a boolean? Must admit I don't understand what you are trying to do
there. Anyway if all you are trying to do is assign the results of a
function/method call then why not just use an = assignment?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>BooleanAnswer =
anAnswer(anAnswer.setAnswer(true)); <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Any valid java can used.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>What I'm really trying to do is simply return a boolean
from a set of really complicated rules in my decision table. I run through the
rules and if it passes, I return true.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The reason I didn't do what you suggested above is b/c
there is no documentation to suggest this is valid syntax and, after several
postings to this list, no one responded to my requests on how to do this
assignment.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So, how do I do an assignment in a decision table to simply
return a boolean? Otherwise, can you explain the syntax you posted to me. This
doesn't look like any Java I've seen and I can't make heads
or tails of how it should work.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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