On Aug 16, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
Is it correct that it isn't possible to bind the entire value of a multislot to a variable *and* use some list pattern to restrict the facts at the same time? Consider:
Yes, that's right.
It's possible to work around this restriction: A predicate can be written to test for the pattern, such as, e.g. (ae $?msae &:(test- bc ?msae)).
Yes. Alternatively, you could use the list patterns, and then use fact-slot-value to recover the entire slot contents on the rule RHS.
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