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This looks great so far - definitely a welcomed feature.

I'm assuming rules that make use of make { gen :Some, :Derived, :Data } will add data to the current overlay. Is that correct?

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+1. This would be a performance benefit for my use case. I would like to have a single engine for the life of the ruby process that I could repeatedly assert a set of facts and obtain the inferred facts for only that set.

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I'm assuming rules that make use of make { gen :Some, :Derived, :Data } will add data to the current overlay. Is that correct?

Indeed. More generally, the earliest overlay that would be logically consistent.

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+1. I'm considering an application to help analyze some research data. Being able to have an overall data context--with a disposable local-subcontext--would allow me to assert a number of facts that are generally true (e.g., about biospecimen types, study protocols, etc.) and have an easy way to only keep the facts for each study subject in working memory as long as I need them to make inferences. In this case I'm rolling through a list of study subjects serially.

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@cosmocracy is there something you need that is not covered by the existing functionality?

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