Wolfgang,

   Thank you for reporting. Mario is fixing it. 

   On a related note, for Drools 5, for backward compatibility, we still allowed bindings in the middle of expressions. We were discussing if this should be disallowed from Drools 6 forward? Things like:

Person( $name : name == "Bob" || $alive : isAlive && ($age : age > 40 ) )

   Things get quite complicated and a bit hard to read as expressions get more complex. It also clashes with the ternary operator ?:.

   Any thoughts on retaining support for this kind of syntax or removing it? 

   Edson

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@gmail.com> wrote:
Below is a self-contained DRL which should not compile because the sum
isn't a boolean expression. (Note that omitting "$x:" results in the
correct diagnostic "predicate ... must be a boolean".)

declare Foo
  a: double
  b: double
end

rule what
when
    $c: Foo( $x: a + b )
then
    System.out.println( "foo: " + $c );
end
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