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

Mark Proctor mproctor at codehaus.org
Fri Aug 12 06:00:21 EDT 2011


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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