[rules-users] Error is Java.lang.RuntimeException

[Michael Anstis]

hehe.

I don't think we should burden ourselves with handling of every UNICODE
nuance after all :)

Perhaps a clear warning in the documentation for spreadsheet based decision
tables alerting the user to the problem of "smart" quotes" would be enough?

I suspect we have certain assumptions about the code-points of all the
punctuation in our DRL grammer.

What do you think?

2011/8/26 Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun at gmail.com>

> Michael,
>
> may I point you to http://unicode.org/uni2book/ch06.pdf and don't shy away
> from the intricacies of double quotes in all the world's languages ;-)
>
> Quotes, in a spreadsheet's text fields, are punctuations in the author's
> language and usually not delimiters of some programming language. Using a
> spreadsheet for collecting code snippets is not the everyday use case.
>
> -W
>
>
>
> 2011/8/26 Michael Anstis <michael.anstis at gmail.com>
>
>> Can you be certain the author of the spreadsheet has not entered the
>> erroneous, although cosmetically similar, quotation marks?
>>
>> I find it unlikely Open Office Spreadsheet chooses to use ASCII quotation
>> marks in some places but UNICODE, visually similar but otherwise completely
>> different, in others.
>>
>>
>> 2011/8/26 Manohar Kokkula <manohar.kokkula at tcs.com>
>>
>>> I am using Open Office Spreadsheet to create decision table. So what
>>> should i do to resolve this..
>>> Please help me on this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Manohar Kokkula
>>> Mailto: manohar.kokkula at tcs.com
>>>
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>>> From: Wolfgang Laun **
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>>> Date: 08/26/2011 12:26AM
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>>> Subject: Re: [rules-users] Error is Java.lang.RuntimeException
>>>
>>> Heh :) Looking at the DRL, I spotted it:
>>>
>>> > rule *"*Allocation Rules_10*"*
>>> >       when
>>> >                $s:Student(marks == *"*60", age == "20")
>>> >                $c:College(ranking == "A", location == "Mumbai")
>>> >        then
>>>
>>> Up there, all quotes are ASCII quotes, code point U+0022.
>>>
>>> >                $s.setDepartment(“Maths”);
>>> >                $c.setStatus(“NA”);
>>>
>>> But in your spreadsheet you have one of the several other quotation marks
>>> as defined by the unicode standard, the one the authors of your spreadsheet
>>> program deemed fit to be sneaked in when you hit shift-2 (or whatever,
>>> depending on your keyboard).
>>>
>>> On 25 August 2011 16:21, FrankVhh <frank.vanhoenshoven at agserv.eu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Shouldn't marks and age be integer values and not Strings?
>>>>
>>> No, these are converted automatically.
>>>
>>> -W
>>>
>>>
>>>
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