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

[Michael Neale]

I like interjection - but not sure if it is quite right, but this is a
common "pattern" of usage.



On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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