Updates are needed to allow better integration with external tools

[seidewitz]

• Metamodel interface updates
  • Allow opaque expressions to have behavior, bodies and languages.
  • Allow properties to have default values.
  • Make value specifications a kind of packageable element.
• Abstract syntax updates
  • Base line and column positions for a literal expression on the token it is parsed from (instead of the next token, which is the default for most syntax elements).
  • Allow package-level visibility for a member to be recorded explicitly as "package", as well as being the implicit default.
  • Record the generated operation definitions (if any) for default constructors and destructors.
  • Generate the path name for a qualified name so that it is a syntactically legal Alf representation of the qualified name (by using unrestricted name notation were necessary and ensuring space between closing angle brackets).
  • Ensure that the "isVisibleOnly" flag for qualified names with template bindings is propagated to any template argument names before resolution.
  • Allow a bound element reference to conform to another type if it has an existing effective bound element that conforms to that type.
  • Allow the current set of bound classifiers waiting to be instantiated to be saved and restored.
• Mapping updates
  • Extract mapping code for class initialization into separate methods, to allow overriding.
  • Correct the type of the output pin of the structured activity node generated for an instance creation expression for an active class.

[packet-rat]

Trying to follow this -- Can anyone elaborate a tad more: Updates to what specifically?

[seidewitz]

Sorry, I added this issue to cover a series of generally small updates that came out of recent work on integrating the reference implementation into other tools. I should really delineate the changes made, but at the moment, I am trying to finally get v1.1.0 released. For now, you can see what changed in the commit I just pushed.

[seidewitz]

I have added a description for the issue listing the updates.

[seidewitz]

Resolved in v1.1.0.

[seidewitz]

Resolved in v1.1.0a.