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From: john@amc.com (John Sambrook)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
Subject: A CLIPS question
Keywords: CLIPS
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Date: 17 Nov 90 05:06:05 GMT
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Posted-Date: Tue Nov 20 16:26:34 GMT 1990

CLIPS is clearly a well-done package and is no doubt useful for many 
applications where one would want to use a rule-based approach.  But
in my application the choice of representing all numbers as floating
point values is not optimal.  In my application I need to be able to
manipulate numbers as 32 bit unsigned quantities and also need to be
able to test and set bits individually.

I would be interested in hearing from others who have used the CLIPS
system and how they were affected by this design decision.  I wonder
if there is an "integer only" version of CLIPS.  I should also point
out that I am not trying to denigrate CLIPS -- it's just that I need
to find a way to work around the floating point issue.

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John Sambrook                             DNS: john@amc.com
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Redmond, Washington  98073               Dial: (206) 882-2000 ext. 630