[rules-users] Agenda-group in fact insert time

[Wolfgang Laun]

My proposal to use "extends" was merely syntactic sugar, intended to
save the trouble of repeating Focus( value == "one" ) or similar with
every rule. It is the Focus blocker that can avoid LHS evaluation.

-W


On 11/05/2013, Sonata <plz.write.to at gmail.com> wrote:
> After a few testing, it seems that this "rule extends rule" feature is not
> exactly what I want.
>
> Say rule "B" extends "A"
>
> rule "A" will be evaluated. This is OK.
>
> when it comes to rule "B", first, conditions in rule "A" will be evaluated
> again, then the conditions in rule "B" will be evaluated.
>
> That is not what I expected in this feature. May be it is only half baked?
>
> I would love to see this feature to be enchanted. Like if rule "B" extends
> "A", rule "C" extends "A"
> then once rule "A" is evaluated, the result (to be executed or not) should
> be used when evaluating rule "B" and rule "C".
>
> If rule "A" does not match the conditions, none of rule "B" nor rule "C"
> should be evaluated again.
>
> If rule "A" matches the conditions, when it comes to rule "B" or rule "C",
> those conditions in rule "A" should not be evaluated again.
>
> Otherwise it is just like I repeated the conditions of rule "A" in rule "B"
> and rule "C" again. The only saving from this feature is in the code by
> typing less.
>
>
>
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