[rules-dev] modify keyword in java

I was thinking about the modify keyword and how nice it would to have that work from java dialect too. I think we might be able to hack this with a simple scanner. 1) scan for the "modify ("......") {". We can balance text the first opening and closing parenthesis. 2) take the contents of the "("......")" and assign it to X and do modifyRetract( X ). if the contents starts with "new" we need to handle that slightly differently, note no ModifyRetract is needed and we have to assign the results to an anonymous variable. 3) scan for "=" then backtrack to find the field name (delimeted by the first "{" or a "," 4) for each field = Y write it to X.setX to Y 5) then do modifyInsert( Y ) I could write a custom line scanner for this, but wondering if it could actually be done more efficiently in antlr? Any takers? :) Mark