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Extended function syntax

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Mon Feb 3 07:34:50 EST 2003 
joost_jacob at hotmail.com (J.Jacob) writes:

> I can't explain statecharts in a usenet posting, it would take too
> long.  But there are explanations in any UML book or article; google
> is your friend.

Well, I don't have time for that either.

> Basically what I was suggesting is that the new function syntax could
> be used to help *implement* statecharts more easily.  As it is now, it
> is not a clear straightforward process to translate UML statecharts,
> or Live Sequence Charts, or other "behavioral diagrams" into working
> code.  Python could be a first here.

OK, so what do you want the new syntax to DO?

(For reference, I'm the guy who implemented the new syntax...)

> [Michael Hudson]
> > ... 
> > contains more words I don't understand more densely packed than I've
> > seen in some time.
> > 
> 
> I'm sorry, my native language is Dutch.

It was words like "XMI" that worried me, not the English bits :)

Cheers,
M.

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