Re: case tools

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

martin.dowie@btopenworld.com (Martin Dowie) writes:

> what do you mean by "architectural features"?

I guess I meant "code generation features".

As I remember Rose Ada, you could specfy for an individual class --
amongst many other features -- whether you wanted a
pointer-to-instance type, what it was to be called, and what an
automatically-generated parameter of this type was to be called
(defaults project-selectable, eg yes, Handle and This).

This is "architectural" in the sense that if you're to be easily able
to write code to access structures generated from my part of the
model, it's a great help if you can _know_ what the code generation
rules are, without the possibility of my changing my part of the
mapping on a whim.