[Uml-devel] Patch implementing classifier scope

[Jens Krüger]

Hi, 

what do you think about this patch (or the idea of this patch). I find it 
useful and I think we should it add to our CVS. If you agreed I will it 
commit.

Jens

Am Mittwoch, 16. Oktober 2002 15:28 schrieb 
tomas.walch at se.transport.bombardier.com:
> Hi all!
>
> I needed to display some operations with classifier scope ("static") so I
> made this hack (that's how open source development is supposed to work,
> right?). Please try it out and if OK the happy users of Umbrello will also
> be able to display their attributes and operations undelined. I didn't
> really know what to write in the dialogs so if it looks ugly please change
> it. The thing is that visibility (public,protected or private) is
> mistakenly refered to as scope throughout the code, whereas scope in UML
> really is about instance (object) or classifier (static) scope. Which leads
> me to Andys points about reworking the object model to mirror the UML
> standard, which I think is a very good idea indeed. The current model has
> unfortunately too many flaws to constitute a feasible code base in the long
> run. And though I haven't (yet) looked at the model from the standard, the
> bare fact that it's there for us to use implies to me that we should. It
> would make the program more flexible and just as important it would
> decrease the learning curve for future generations of umbrello maintainers.
>
> /Tomas Walch.
>
> P:S. If there is any problems with the patch it might be because I only
> have Solaris diff instead of GNU diff, if so tell me and I'll try some
> other flags. And yes, I haven't added anything to the parsing/generation,
> so scope is quietly ignored there for now...
>
> (See attached file: classifierscope.patch)

-- 
Jens