[REBOL] Re: rule based engine?
From: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 25-Dec-2002 8:33
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> Subject: [REBOL] Re: rule based engine?
> I want to look into a policy engine (authorization) which is
> goal-directed, hence backtracking. Looks like we're going
> differnt ways :(
Hi, backtracking is nice but a bit harder to do ;-) that's why I first
want to start with forward chaining. But I'm interested in the other
part as well.
But are you sure that you really need backtracking? For forward chaining
it might even be possible to use PARSE.
You might have a look at 11. at
http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/pjm/publications/
> The hard thing seems to do it the Rebol way,
> utilizing all dynamic code
> features with a minimal evaluator.
Did you already started with something? Robert