I think Fred Freitas wrote:
> * When i modify an attribute slot in Object representation, does it retract
> > all the attribute slots in that object and assert them again? Or just that
> > particular slot? (Sounds dumb?) :)
>
> This is a quite important question. I heard in a conference that any change
> in an object will fire the evaluation of ALL of its methods calls in any
> rule LHS. If this holds true, this is one advantage for declarative
> representations, which will only evaluate the LHSs referring to the
> particular slot.
>
This is unadulterated nonsense. As I just stated in my last message,
changing a single property in a Bean, or modifying a fact tied to a
Bean, affects the value of only that one slot -- no other methods of
the object are called.
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