[REBOL] Re: rule based engine?
From: maarten:koopmans:surfnet:nl at: 24-Dec-2002 22:48
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>>I remember discussing this on the list before with Robbert, but has
>>anyone ever looked into a rule-based engine for Rebol?
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>Hi, yep it's still on my agenda and the topic is moving upwards the
>priority list. I want to add such an engine to my RFM. I remember
>someone (Gregg?) having done some state-machine stuff.
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>What I want to start with is the Rete algorithm. It uses some graph
>based datastructure. The graph stuff is already done for RFM.
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>What kind of rules are you thinking about? Robert
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I want to look into a policy engine (authorization) which is
goal-directed, hence backtracking. Looks like we're going differnt ways :(
The hard thing seems to do it the Rebol way, utilizing all dynamic code
features with a minimal evaluator.
--Maarten
