I've put up a wiki page to collect thoughts on ideas that would involve breaking backwards compatability in Drools. It's aimed to produce ideas for Drools 6.0. No suggestion is too silly, think of it as a brainstorming area for alternative syntaxes and behaviours to what we have now, so knock yourself out. https://community.jboss.org/wiki/BreakingChangesSuggestions Mark _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev

I've collected a few things I've been moaning about... They are intended to make DRL programming more convenient, given the current set of the Engine's capabilities, i.e., enhance Drools' usability! AFAIK, none of these proposals would break backward compatibility. Cheers Wolfgang On 27/03/2012, Mark Proctor<mproctor(a)codehaus.org> wrote: > I've put up a wiki page to collect thoughts on ideas that would involve > breaking backwards compatability in Drools. It's aimed to produce ideas > for Drools 6.0. > > No suggestion is too silly, think of it as a brainstorming area for > alternative syntaxes and behaviours to what we have now, so knock > yourself out. > https://community.jboss.org/wiki/BreakingChangesSuggestions > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > rules-dev mailing list > rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev > _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev

I think you misunderstood the intent of the proposal. It's not that I propose a reusable CE element combination which might indeed be a query. I proposed a parameterized sequence of lexical tokens, aka macro. I trust that you know C and the C preprocessor: I want a macro, not a function.

-W On 27 March 2012 19:07, Mark Proctor <mproctor(a)codehaus.org <mailto:mproctor@codehaus.org>> wrote: query can somewhat help for re-usable elements, as per "Add CE templates". You can wrap elements in a query and use that inside a rule, remember our queries are reactive if you leave off the ?. Mark On 27/03/2012 10:02, Wolfgang Laun wrote: > I've collected a few things I've been moaning about... They are > intended to make DRL programming more convenient, given the current > set of the Engine's capabilities, i.e., enhance Drools' usability! > > AFAIK, none of these proposals would break backward compatibility. > > Cheers > Wolfgang > > > On 27/03/2012, Mark Proctor&lt;mproctor(a)codehaus.org <mailto:mproctor@codehaus.org>> wrote: >> I've put up a wiki page to collect thoughts on ideas that would involve >> breaking backwards compatability in Drools. It's aimed to produce ideas >> for Drools 6.0. >> >> No suggestion is too silly, think of it as a brainstorming area for >> alternative syntaxes and behaviours to what we have now, so knock >> yourself out. >> https://community.jboss.org/wiki/BreakingChangesSuggestions >> >> Mark >> _______________________________________________ >> rules-dev mailing list >> rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-dev@lists.jboss.org> >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > rules-dev mailing list > rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-dev@lists.jboss.org> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-dev@lists.jboss.org> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev