Re: 'withing' problem [code generation]

[Mark Biggar <mark.a.biggar@home.com>]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> Mark Johnson <Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com> writes:
> > at least two "simple solutions" that are not mutually exclusive:
> >  - annotate the drawing to "break the circular dependency here"
> 
> This is not "automatic", it's "manual". That's the point.
> 
> >  - recognize patterns of circular dependencies and generate code
> > that automatically generates the new packages (and report such
> > changes to the user)
> 
> This may be possible. The problem is that the automatic recogition of
> patterns may be unstable; small changes in the UML model may make
> large changes in the new packages.

How about a hybrid approach,  Automatically break the cycle and then
automatically annotate the diagram so that it does it the same way
in the future.  Of course, if the user want to do the annotation
manually (like if he doesn't like the way the automatic system
did it) they he can.

Then there is the over specification approach, forward declare all
the types in the cycle in a symmetric way.

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Mark Biggar
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