The names of variables should not be pushed into being useful in such a way. Metadata would be more appropriate to identify variables that are related.
On 8/8/07, James Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was sitting in bed last night, and this idea came to me: > > It would be really easy to create some kind of script / automation > process that automatically connects up variables of the same name if > they have matching interfaces. > > Say you have a component A with variables a and b. a is defined in A and > has pub interface out, while b is imported from B, where it is defined. > So you also have component B with variables a and b, a having pub > interface in and b having pub interface out. > > Surely it would be very simple to just have some button to click in > PCEnv or COR that links up these variables? I'm not saying this is done > by default - you'd have to select the option once you'd defined all your > variable interfaces. It wouldn't be able to handle connecting variables > with different names, but it would at least be a start. There would also > be problems with variables with the same name that aren't supposed to be > all connected together, but this, IMO, is just bad CellML practice. > Imports might be an issue too. I find creating connections the most > tedious aspect of coding up a CellML model, and I think the benefits > would vastly outweigh the problems, and of course, people wouldn't have > to use it... > > I also thought, surely someone has already thought of this and thrown > the idea out. But if this could be implemented it would be extremely > useful. > > James > _______________________________________________ > cellml-discussion mailing list > cellml-discussion@cellml.org > http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion > _______________________________________________ cellml-discussion mailing list cellml-discussion@cellml.org http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion
