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    On 27/08/2010 00:05, Michael Neale wrote:
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      type="cite">Hahaha - yes - that is what I was thinking.&nbsp;
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      <div>Dyanmic salience was added some time back - but its one of
        those "did it and forgot about it" things.&nbsp;</div>
      <div>Also - historically salience has been "abused" more than
        "used" - so perhaps there is less excitement to talk about what
        you can do with it.&nbsp;</div>
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      <div>But the case wolfgang mentioned is a good one - if you know
        you need it you can probably safely use it. <br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Edson
          Tirelli <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:tirelli@post.com">tirelli@post.com</a>&gt;</span>
          wrote:<br>
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            <div>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Wolfgang,</div>
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            <div>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Not sure I understand what you mean, but Drools
              supports dynamic salience:</div>
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              <div>rule "fire in rank order 1,2,..."</div>
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            <div>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;salience( -$rank )<br>
              when<br>
              &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Element( $rank : rank,... )<br>
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            <div>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;...</div>
            <div>then</div>
            <div>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; ...</div>
            <div>end</div>
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            <div>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Edson</div>
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              <div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/26 Wolfgang Laun <span
                  dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:wolfgang.laun@gmail.com"
                    target="_blank">wolfgang.laun@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span>
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                      204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Just FYI, but who
                      knows ;-)<br>
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                      Our proprietary vintage RBS has a feature is
                      (admittedly) rarely used<br>
                      but could come in handy, every now and then.<br>
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                      Given this class<br>
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                      &nbsp; class Element {<br>
                      &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; int rank; // rank &gt; 0<br>
                      &nbsp; }<br>
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                      and to fire a rule in ascending rank order, you
                      can write (using<br>
                      modified Drools syntax)<br>
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                      rule "fire in rank order 1,2,..."<br>
                      when<br>
                      &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Element( $rank : rank,... )<br>
                      &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; // ...<br>
                      salience -$rank &nbsp; &nbsp;### &lt;=<br>
                      then<br>
                      &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;// ...<br>
                      end<br>
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                      The dynamically set salience does all the work.
                      (Of course, you can<br>
                      achieve the same order<br>
                      in Drools easily enough.)<br>
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                      This is possible since salience is a value that
                      must be carried over<br>
                      into the activation.<br>
                      There is at least one other rule attribute that
                      shares this property,<br>
                      but I'm not sure<br>
                      whether anything useful can be done with dynamic
                      agenda groups.<br>
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                      Cheers<br>
                      -W<br>
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              &nbsp; Edson Tirelli<br>
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