Re: JESS: Retrieving slot and multislot values

On 15 September 2010 17:17, Donald Winston <[email protected]> wrote:

> engine.getGlobalContext() ??
> I thought this was just for global variables.
>
> It's for defglobals and variables bound at the outermost level.

But Jess is subject to scoping, where an "inner" scope may introduce an name
not know globally, or reuse a name from an outer scope by binding it to
another value.

You won't need to use Contexts other than that getGlobalContext() unless you
are into Event handling or sophisitcated exception handling.

-W