[rules-dev] [rules-users] What would you call a Fact that is only evaluated once?

[Wolfgang Laun]

One term (probably too long) would be "interjection".

A more pictorial word is "flake", which (thinking of snowflake) provides an
inkling for the fast fade away.

-W


On 12 August 2011 12:00, Mark Proctor <mproctor at codehaus.org> wrote:

> What would you call a fact that is inserted once and the conflict set
> computed (the rules that can fire). The fact is then retracted so no
> more matches can take place, but the conflict set itself is allowed to
> fire (assuming their other facts remain true).
>
> I think this is quite a common use case and most users will handle this
> via a lower salience and retracting the fact manually, but I think it's
> useful enough to build in as a keyword on type declaration. We just need
> a name for it :)
>
> Mark
>
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