Re: [PRD] Default conflict resolution strategy (ISSUE-64) (Was; Re: [Fwd: Re: PRD Review])

Christian de Sainte Marie wrote:
> Gary Hallmark wrote:
>>>
>>> Mark Proctor wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Refaction in JRules is the same as jess/clips/drools no-loop. 
>>
>> I'd be surprised if it is exactly the same.   What do you expect from 
>> the following ruleset:
>>
>> p(1)
>> q(1)
>> q(2)
>> (* rule1[loop->false] *)
>> Do(external(print("rule1 fired, ?x=" ?x))) :- q(?x)
>> (* rule2[loop->false] *)
>> Do(Retract(p(1)) p(1) external(print("rule2 fired, ?x=" ?x))) :- 
>> And(p(1) q(?x))
>
> I guess you mean:
> rule1: if q(?x) then print("rule1 fired, ?x=" ?x)
> rule2: if p(1) and q(?x) then Retract(p(1)), Assert(p(1)), print 
> ("rule2 fired, ?x=" ?x)
>
> Hey, Gary, this is not in the spec, you can write them rules in a way 
> that makes sense :-)
>
>> With Oracle/Jess, you get
>> rule2 fired, ?x=2
>> rule1 fired, ?x=2
>> rule1 fired, ?x=1
>
> With JRules, you bind only objects, so, the example does not really work.
http://www.ilog.com/products/jrules/documentation/jrules67/rslangref/rs_lng_irlref79.html

?c:Customer(?p:phoneNo);

Isn't phoneNo a primitive.

>
> But if you could bind primitive data types, (I have to check, but I 
> think) that you would fire rule2 with ?x=1 as well. And that is 
> certainly what you would get with the semantics that was described in 
> PRD.
>
>> The semantics of Oracle/Jess is that a rule's actions cannot 
>> re-activate that rule.  Initially, because of the input data, rule1 
>> and rule2 each have 2 activations.  When rule2 fires, the retraction 
>> removes the other rule2 activation.  The assert action cannot 
>> reactivate rule2 because of the no-loop property.
>
> I do not understand that. I mean, I do not understand the intended 
> behaviour: do you mean that p(1) after rule2 has been fired is 
> distinct from p(1) before, and that, somehow, the engine recognizes 
> the difference? Does this have to do with the assertion being logical 
> (and the engine tracing the origin of it)? I mean, as in a TMS: Jess 
> has a TMS facility, right? I have to check how we handle refraction 
> (or equivalent) wrt logical statements in JRules...
>
>> We need to carefully specify these strategies to be sure we agree 
>> what they are, and then we need to see what the intersection is, and 
>> if it is  >= 1, give it an explicit name(s) (and probably not in the 
>> metadata as my example does).
>
> Absolutely agree.
>
> Christian
>


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