Re: JESS: Scoping Question

2011-11-10 Thread David Scuse
That makes perfect sense. Thank you. - Original Message - From: Friedman-Hill, Ernest To: jess-users Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:15 PM Subject: RE: JESS: Scoping Question Since control structures are functions in Jess, the ability for a function to peek from one

RE: JESS: Scoping Question

2011-11-10 Thread Friedman-Hill, Ernest
ess-us...@sandia.gov [mailto:owner-jess-us...@sandia.gov] On Behalf Of David Scuse Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 11:43 AM To: jess-users Subject: JESS: Scoping Question Hi Ernest: I came across a strange "feature" of Jess as a result of a typing error. It appears as though Jess uses dy

JESS: Scoping Question

2011-11-10 Thread David Scuse
Hi Ernest: I came across a strange "feature" of Jess as a result of a typing error. It appears as though Jess uses dynamic scoping -- any variables defined in a rule are visible in any functions called by the RHS of the rule. I looked for references to this in the book and the manual but couldn't