I think Simon Harris wrote:
> Is that for performans reasons or primarily understandability?
> 
> I'm building an app where the Java code constructs a very simple domain  
> model that is asserted as a set of facts. The end user is then able to  
> write ad-hoc rules, infering relationships that the app could never know  
> in advance.
> 

Both. If you need to represent ad-hoc relationships, you could use a
template like

(deftemplate relation (slot name) (slot subject) (slot object))

or, if you must, 

(deftemplate relation (slot name) (multislot objects))

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