I went back and looked over your first message and this time paid
attention to the deffunction canBeginProcessing. Holy corrupted data
structures, Batman! You can't modify a fact on the *left* side of a
rule! The Rete network is *not* re-entrant, which is why it's
carefully protected against interference from other threads. But that
protection doesn't help if a predicate function changes the object
it's working on, sending a PropertyChangeEvent which modifies the fact
that's being pattern-matched!
This is something like writing a Java equals() method that changes the
object and its hashCode() when you call it. Try to store such an
object in a HashMap!
Change canBeginProcessing to be a pure predicate function; call
setProcessedEntity (and beginProcessing) on the *right* side of the
rule, after you've made this decision.
(deffunction canBeginProcessing(?station)
(if (and (neq ?station nil)) then
;; Get the entity that can be processed.
(bind ?entity (call ?station beginProcessing))
;; Assign the entity to the current station.
(call ?station setProcessedEntity ?entity)
;; Return true if there is an entity.
(return (neq ?entity nil))
else
(return FALSE)))
I think Nicolas Fortin wrote:
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> Dr. Friedman-Hill,
>
> I've been curious and I've had another idea. Just before to call the
> Rete.run() method in my Java program, I have checked the agenda activations.
> It has strengthened my doubt about something wrong, since for the
> troublesome rule (process-entity), there are two activations with the same
> facts :
>
> PROCESS:
> [Activation: PROCESS::process-entity f-15, f-42 ; time=45 ; salience=0]
> [Activation: PROCESS::process-entity f-15, f-42 ; time=45 ; salience=0]
> STATUS:
> For a total of 7 activations in all modules.
>
> Is it really abnormal ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Nicolas
>
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