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[cellml-discussion] A list of proposed changes to semantics to makein CellML 1.2


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  • From: r.britten at auckland.ac.nz (Randall Britten)
  • Subject: [cellml-discussion] A list of proposed changes to semantics to makein CellML 1.2
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:09:22 +1300


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cellml-discussion-bounces at cellml.org [mailto:cellml-discussion-
> bounces at cellml.org] 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.




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