-----Original Message-----
From: Wouter Zoons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:19 AM
To: Chad Brandon
Cc: 'Fouelefak St�phane'; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Andromda-user] Retrieving Type modifier set with MagicDraw

> I was thinking 'cleaner' because of the centralized way of specifying
> classifier types, the modifier is too PSM for me .. if you want to support
> it you'll probably need to include a mapping for it too for it to remain
> PIM
>
> [CB] Hmm, I'm not really sure about being PSM, I think arrays are a
> standard
> concept.
>

for the arrays I could agree, most languages I've seen denote them like
this, but for the '&' and '*' (reference and pointer respectively) it's
not true, Java and C# for example don't have them anymore, they are C/C++
specific .. that's why I think we should map those things rather than
using them straight from the UML model

btw, also for 4GL languages such as SQL, the array modifier needs to map
on something different

[CB] That's assuming "[]" is not the standard way of representing arrays in
UML, which if it was, then it would not be PSM :).  I guess you would need
to assume the modifier would be the way that UML represented it...which if
we could retrieve it from the UML meta model then it would be (but that
currently isn't the case).

-- Wouter






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