Conditional Branches with sub blocks and 'switch' statements

Last week Mario introduced the new left hand side conditional element 'if/else if/else'. The next plans for this is to allow nested blocks in each conditional branch and to then to provide a 'switch' statement for sugar. You can see more examples of both, plus their logical rule equivalents here, https://community.jboss.org/wiki/BranchCEs

Some time ago I started to write a pacman example, it's still unfinished, but I can share with you how these new constructs will improve maintainability with reduced rules. The original drl can be found here:
https://raw.github.com/droolsjbpm/drools/master/drools-examples/src/main/resources/org/drools/examples/pacman/pacman.drl

The pacman.drl has the following three rules:

/**
 * By increasing the tick we slow down the time to the next move.
 * I use the CE 'or' here rathre than an infix "in" to maximise node sharing
 * with both the EatFood and EatPowerPill rules.
 */
rule SlowWhenEating dialect "mvel" no-loop salience 10when
    $char : Character( name == "Pacman" )
    $l : Location( character == $char )
    $target : Cell( row == $l.row, col == $l.col)
    (or $contents : CellContents( cell == $target, cellType == CellType.FOOD )
        $contents : CellContents( cell == $target, cellType == CellType.POWER_PILL ) )    
    $update : ScheduledLocationUpdate( character == $char )
then  
    modify ( $update ) { tock += 2 };
end


/**
 * When we move onto a FOOD cell, increase the score by 1
 */
rule EatFood dialect "mvel" when
    $char : Character( name == "Pacman" )
    $l : Location( character == $char )
    $target : Cell( row == $l.row, col == $l.col)
    $contents : CellContents( cell == $target, cellType == CellType.FOOD )
    $s : Score()   
then
    modify( $contents ) { cellType = CellType.EMPTY };
    modify( $s ) { score += 1 };    
end

/**
 * When we move onto a POWER_PILL cell, increase the score by 5
 */
rule EatPowerPill dialect "mvel" when
    $char : Character( name == "Pacman" )
    $l : Location( character == $char )
    $target : Cell( row == $l.row, col == $l.col)
    $contents : CellContents( cell == $target, cellType == CellType.POWER_PILL )
    $s : Score()   
then
    modify( $contents ) { cellType = CellType.EMPTY };
    modify( $s ) { score += 5 };    
end

Once we support 'switch' with nested blocks we should be able to do the following. Note I also removed the 'no-loop', as it's no longer needed with property reactive.

rule eatFoodOrPill when
    $s : Score()  
    $char : Character( name == "Pacman" )
    $l : Location( character == $char )
    $target : Cell( row == $l.row, col == $l.col)
    $contents : CellContents( cell == $target )
    switch( cellType ) {
        case CellType.FOOD : {  
            do[scorePlus1]      
            $update : ScheduledLocationUpdate( character == $char )
            do[slowWhenEating]
        }
        case CellType.POWER_PILL  : {
            do[scorePlus5]        
            $update : ScheduledLocationUpdate( character == $char )
            do[slowWhenEating]            
        }        
    }
then[slowWhenEating]  
    modify ( $update ) { tock += 2 };
then[scorePlus1]
    modify( $contents ) { cellType = CellType.EMPTY };
    modify( $s ) { score += 5 };    
then[scorePlus5]
    modify( $contents ) { cellType = CellType.EMPTY };
    modify( $s ) { score += 5 };     
end