[rules-users] semantically equivalent DROOLS L-value expressions?

Mark Proctor mproctor at codehaus.org
Mon Oct 22 23:43:48 EDT 2012


single equal sign, must be double:
> attrA = "foo"



On 22 Oct 2012, at 20:44, Cotton.Ben <ben.d.cotton.iii at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I am a DROOLS newbie. I apologize if this has been asked before. This rule (R1) is not syntactically correct in the Eclipse .DRL view.
> 
> rule "R1" 
>     when  
>         Message( 
>              ((attrA = "foo" && _attrB == "bar") || AttrA== "foo")  //syntax error (curious, why?)
>         )
>     then 
>         System.out.println( "R1 pattern-matched Message.  DROOLS Consequence executing now." );    
> end
> 
> but R2 is syntactically correct =
> 
> rule "R2" 
>     when  
>         Message( attrA = "foo" && _attrB == "bar") || 
>         Message (AttrA== "foo")
> 
>     then 
>         System.out.println( "R2 pattern-matched Message.  DROOLS Consequence executing now." );    
> end
> 
> In Drools 5.2, are R1 and R2 semantically equivalent? 
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