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Methods and apparatus for integration of declarative rule-based processing with procedural programming in a digital data-processing evironment

  • US 8,479,157 B2
  • Filed: 12/29/2009
  • Issued: 07/02/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of unifying one or more declarative rules and a plurality of procedural instructions in a procedural computational system the method comprising the steps of:

  • upon execution of a procedural instruction that changes one or more variables, updating one or more other variables participating in one or more declarative rules so as to maintain relationships imposed by said one or more rules among said variables,wherein said updating of said one or more other variables is performed prior to execution of other procedural instructions.

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