1. A method of integrating one or more declarative rules into a plurality of procedural instructions in a procedural computational system, the method comprising the steps of: executing, on a digital data processing system that comprises one or more digital data processors, a procedural sequence that...
In such a method, for each of the procedural instructions operating on one or more variables, a hash table indexed by variable names is utilized to determine whether any of these variables participate in at least one of the declarative rules. Upon execution of a procedural instruction that ...