[rules-dev] Breaking Changes Suggestions

[Mark Proctor]

On 27/03/2012 18:39, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
> 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.
I completely agree. It's one of the reasons why I've not pushed 
drools-templates more. Because we also have "dsl" which are just another 
form of templating. I'd prefer both those ideas where condensed into a 
proper macro language. But it will take a lot of thought.

Mark
>
> -W
>
>
>
> On 27 March 2012 19:07, Mark Proctor <mproctor at codehaus.org 
> <mailto:mproctor at 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<mproctor at codehaus.org
>     <mailto:mproctor at 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
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