On 31/01/2013, Mario Fusco <mario.fu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> after a (quite long) discussion with Mark, Edson and Michael we realized
> that, to support the guided editor roundtrip without dropping our current
> DSL features, we need a new format allowing to mix plain DRL and DSL
> sentences but delimiting these last ones in a clear (and easy to recognize)
> way.
>
> Our first idea has been to not have dsl blocks and mark each dsl line with
> an initial single quote (') like inAgreed: not a good idea. > For the same reason we could have similar problems with many other (not too > fancy) characters. Moreover it happens quite often to have a dsl that spans > more lines, especially considering the - notation already remembered by > Wolfgang in a former email of this thread. You might have found a good one, *somewhere* in the BMP ;-) > > Taking count of that, I suggest to adopt a (xml-like) syntax that is a bit > more verbose but also much more explicit and less error-prone, like in the > following example that mixes plain drl with dsl parts: Luckily Java doesn't permit < etc. for booleans, otherwise an expression like a < dsl > false split cunningly across lines... > > Moreover I'd prefer to have a specific file extension for this kind of rule > files instead of using the standard .drl one. [snip] > I can't think to nothing better than .edrl > (standing for Enriched DRL) at the moment, so I am open to any suggestion. What about .erl? * 'd' is the successor of 'e', so this follows tradition (as C follows B, or HAL follows IBM). * As for another connotation, see Erlkönig or Erlking, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Erlk%C3%B6nig * Note that "Erlkönig" is firmly established as the German term for "pretest vehicle", running camouflaged on public roads... * From the English translation of Goethe's famous poem, quoting the Erlking: "Very lovely games I'll play with you". Best Wolfgang > > Any other feedback is welcome, > Mario > _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list rules-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev
