From: Rocco Caputo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:39:08PM -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> >
> > I gather that Rocco Caputo would prefer a textual notation
> > that looks like Perl. Whereas torvald is recommending XMI.
>
> It needn't look like Perl, but it should be friendly enough to include
> in documentation.
Hmm... last night I was wondering about the use of Attribute::Handlers and
Inline::File. Something that would look something like:
sub echo
:Purpose(emits exactly what it is given)
:Public
:Handle(echo:Data)
:Emit(echoed:Data)
{
my ( $self, $msg ) = @_;
$self->emit( echoed => $msg->data );
}
We could access this information via Attribute::Handlers at compile time and
generate POD documentation via Inline::Files directly into the source code
file. Perhaps using a checksum at compile time to decide whether or not
anything has changed.
Now if I can just find time to prototype something... I remember having
lexical problems with Attribute::Handlers way back, but I don't think that'd
be a factor.
> > However, HUTN seems oriented toward describing objects...
> > I suppose XMI is too for that matter. I haven't yet read
> > enough to figure out how someone would model states in HUTN.
> > Still, it's food for thought... and might help prevent the
> > tendency to reinvent wheels.
>
> [yawning] I finished the HUTN specs. The HUTN implements a lot of
> interesting ideas. I could see it representing instances and
> associations in a complete program. It doesn't seem friendly enough
> for documentation, though. Maybe I need to spend some more time with
> it.
>
> I'm still making time to read the papers you mentioned.
Me too. I'm no UML guru. Definitely not a POE guru. I see helping with the
POE documentation as a chance to come up to speed on both. I'm sure this'll
give me ample opportunity to flip through my "Design Patterns" and
"Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture" books as well.
Now where was that tutorial on Petri Nets...?
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