Thank you for this tip. It is not what I am trying to achieve, however. I must
apologize if my original email was misunderstood.
My goal is to write a rule that would fire for any 'bag-of-items' fact whose
item names, as listed in a multislot, are all represented by 'item' facts. The
rule should not fire if one or more of these items are absent from the fact
list:
(item (name A))
(item (name B))
(bag-of-items (item-names A))
(bag-of-items (item-names A B))
(bag-of-items (item-names A B C))
In this example the two first 'bag-of-items' facts would fire my hypothetical
rule, while the third would not, because there is no 'item' fact with name C.
The 'forall' approach suggested by M. Friedman-Hill is quite close to this,
however it seems that the rule will fire only if _all_ the 'bag-of-items' facts
have all of their items represented by facts. I.e., in my example above it
would not fire until I remove the third bag-of-items fact. Once again, it is
close but no cigar.
Best,
Aurélien
On Jul 30, 2013, at 10:54 AM, "Jason Morris" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another "old skool" way of doing it using predicate constraints is...
>
> (clear)
> (deftemplate item (slot name))
> (deftemplate bag-of-items (multislot item-names))
>
> (defrule fire-for-all-members-in-bag
> ; If you have a bag of item names ...
> (bag-of-items (item-names $?item-names))
> ; and there is an item whose name is member of this bag ...
> ?item <-(item (name ?name&:(member$ ?name $?item-names)))
> =>
> ; ...then do something interesting
> (printout t ?name " is in the bag!" crlf))
>
> ;; Program
> (reset)
> (assert (item (name A)))
> (assert (item (name B)))
> (assert (item (name C)))
> (assert (bag-of-items (item-names A B C)))
> (run)
>
> *Jason C. Morris*
> President, Principal Consultant
> Morris Technical Solutions LLC
> President, Rules Fest Association
> Chairman, IntelliFest 2013: International Conference on Reasoning
> Technologies
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