RE: [PRD] Notes from F2F meeting 11 February

For the benefit of the non-PRD folk, the "shared pattern" idea is the
rulevariable that is defined outside of individual rules, for
convenience of declaration and management (as these definitions are then
shared across rules).  

Of course, pattern A can simply be mapped to rulevariable A in each rule
that references A.

The only problem is that the reverse is not true: recombining
rulevariables A and A' in rules R and R' to pattern A is a non-trivial
re-factoring. 

AFAIK only the Blaze rule engine supports external rulevariables /
patterns (even though they are a pretty good idea) (although perhaps
Drools introduced them recently?).

[FYI This construct *is* defined in PRR, as reverse mappings are less
likely in a UML / sw devt role].

Cheers
Paul Vincent 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-rif-wg-request@w3.org
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> On Behalf Of Christian de Sainte Marie
> Sent: 12 February 2009 19:14
> To: Christian de Sainte Marie
> Cc: RIF WG; Berlioz-Matignon, Carole Ann; Serrano-Morales, Carlos A
> Subject: Re: [PRD] Notes from F2F meeting 11 February
> 
> 
> Paul made me notice that something was missing... Here they are:
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/PRD_F2F_Wednesday_11_February
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/images/b/bf/PRDtutorial.pdf
> 
> Christian
> 
> Christian de Sainte Marie wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > I uploaded a summary of the issues and questions raised during the
> PRD
> > meeting yesterday 11 February [1], as well as the PRD tutorial that
> we
> > used to bring everybody Carole-Ann and Carlos up to speed, and to
> focus
> > our discussions [2].
> >
> > Carole-Ann, Carlos, Paul, Changhai: please, do not hesitate to add
> you
> > own notes.
> >
> > *Carole-Ann* and *Carlos*: it would be useful if you could provide
> the
> > group with an example of a (small) BRL ruleset using those shared
> > patterns; it would also be useful if it contained an example of
those
> > expressions that Carole-Ann mentionned and that are more complex
than
> > just (Customer.age > 21). Thanx.
> >
> > Next meeting: Tuesday 17 February 1800-1900 UTC (subject to change
to
> > Monday 16, if *Mark* Proctor is available on manday nights).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Christian
> >
> >
> >
> 
>

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