Variables

Variables are essential to most programming languages. For example:

const MEANING_OF_LIFE = 42

MEANING_OF_LIFE is a variable that has been assigned a Number with the value of 42.

Using archetypes-rules, we could express MEANING_OF_LIFE like this:

const { ruleElementFactory } = require('archetypes-rules')

const variable = ruleElementFactory.create('MEANING_OF_LIFE', 42)

console.log(variable.toString())
// =>
// NumberVariable name = MEANING_OF_LIFE, value = 42

console.log(JSON.stringify(variable, null, '  '))
// =>
// {
//   "name": "MEANING_OF_LIFE",
//   "type": "archetypes.rules.NumberVariable",
//   "value": 42
// }

Data-type inference

archetypes-rules ruleElementFactory can infer the data-type of a value, so it's a good idea to use it whenever you load "raw" data.