> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cellml-discussion- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Miller > Sent: Thursday, 10 January 2008 4:10 p.m.
> I think that this discussion has now forked into two different aspects, > although they are somewhat intermingled. > 1) Should we have a directionality to connections on interfaces? > 2) Should we limit the number of interfaces to two, or should we > provide for more than two interfaces? > > On the issue of directionality with respect to the Java analogy, I > would > like to note that unlike CellML, Java is a procedural language, and so > while the concept of requires and provides makes sense for Java, it > probably makes less sense for a declarative language (I am not > suggesting that you are not aware of that, of course, but am merely > restating this by way of summary). Therefore, if we are going to break > compatibility in all cases, then a simple yes or no on each interface > will be sufficient, as opposed to an in, out, or none (unless we want > to > assign an arbitrary direction for some other purpose). I think you are right. Directionality does not seem correct. _______________________________________________ cellml-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion
