I think Thomas Barnekow wrote:

> Readers of the Jess Manual ;-) will recall, that
> 
> (bind <variable> <expression>)
> 
> assigns <expression> to <variable> and returns the given value. Therefore,
> you can modify your rule as follows:
> 
> (defrule somerule
>  ?a <- (aclass (OBJECT ?o))
>   (test (< (call (bind ?vector (call ?o getVectorBasedOnSomeConditions 5))
> size) 0))
>   =>
>   (printout t "Size = " (call ?vector size) crlf))
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Thomas


Unfortunately, this doesn't work. There's no way to bind a variable
on the LHS of a rule that can be accessed from the RHS, except by
pattern-matching it. 




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