Thank you very much for this answer. It seems like 'forall' will fire the rule only if all the 'bag-of-items' facts are validated (i.e., if all of them have 'item' facts with the names listed in their 'names' slot). Is that correct?
If yes, then what I am trying to do is slightly different. I do expect to have some of the 'bag-of-items' facts failing the validation. What I want is to act upon those who pass (and also, incidentally, on those who do not pass). Is there a way to keep track of which, among all the 'bag-of-items' facts, are validated by the 'forall' CE? Best, Aurélien ps: 'dynamic' may be a poor choice of words. I meant that the LHS had to dynamically adapt to the content of a fact's multislot, different from one fact to another On Jul 30, 2013, at 8:21 AM, "Friedman-Hill, Ernest [via Jess]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure what "dynamic" means in this context. But you can use the "forall" > conditional element to implement this rule. You could read the LHS here as > "For all values of ?name in bag-of-items, there's a corresponding item fact." > > (defrule check-bag-valid > (forall > (bag-of-items (names $? ?name $?)) > (item (name ?name))) > => > (printout t "The bag is valid" crlf)) > > NOTE: Like many complex Jess rules, this one won't fire unless before adding > your facts you've executed the "(reset)" command to asset (initial-fact). -- View this message in context: http://jess.2305737.n4.nabble.com/Dynamic-rule-matching-in-the-LHS-tp4654176p4654180.html Sent from the Jess mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
