Glad my hasty original reply has been ripped apart ;-)

 

Goes to show that everybody has something new to learn.

 

Thanks to everyone for the corrections (and simpler, correct, solution!).

 

Mike

 

On 02/05/2008, mashup <richard.bremner.nb@googlemail.com> wrote:

Ahhh I wondered about that, thanks. Again, now I see it, it makes complete
sense. This drools stuff is actually pretty damn good!

Richard

Chris Woodrow wrote:
>
> You're right, if you want to do this with 2 facts, you'll need to do :
>
>   $test : Test( $y : y )
>   Test(
> this == $test,
> x == ($y + 1) )
>
> Chris
>
> 2008/5/2 Raffi Khatchadourian <khatchad@cse.ohio-state.edu>:
>
>> On Fri  2.May'08 at 10:05:20 +0100, Anstis, Michael (M.) wrote:
>>
>> > The "when" section matches fact (object) patterns, so your requirement
>> > could be written as:-
>> >
>> > when there is a Test Fact 'A' and another Test Fact 'B' where "the 'x'
>> > property of 'A'" equals "the 'y' property of fact 'B' plus 1" then.....
>> >
>> > This would become:-
>> >
>> > rule "Rule 1"
>> > when
>> >   Test( $y : y )
>> >   Test( x == ($y + 1) )
>> >
>>
>> Actually, please correct me if I am mistaken, but is this condition
>> correct? I believe that the original question is that for a single
>> instance of class Test t, fire the rule when t.x == t.y + 1 (where 't'
>> refers to the *same* instance of class Test). I believe the rule above
>> would match any instance of class Test whose x value is equal to the
>> value of the instance field y from *any* instance of class Test plus 1.
>> Does that make sense?
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