JESS: Who needs class as a slot in a shadow fact?

After Jess (deftemplate Signal (declare (from-class at.laune.jess.Signal))) TRUE Jess (ppdeftemplate Signal) (deftemplate MAIN::Signal \$JAVA-OBJECT$ at.laune.jess.Signal\ (declare (from-class at.laune.jess.Signal))) Jess (bind ?f1 (assert (Signal))) Fact-1 Jess (facts) f-0

Re: JESS: Who needs class as a slot in a shadow fact?

On Jul 24, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Wolfgang Laun wrote: we see that the fact includes a slot class, inherited from Object . Why is this not suppressed? It never has been. Although I don't think the class property is *extremely* useful, I could certainly come up with ways to use it.