[Uml-user] association to self

Thomas Zander zander at planescape.com
Tue Jan 8 13:11:02 UTC 2002


Ok, thanx for the info; it seems my uml is getting rusty..


On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:01:16AM +0100, Toon Knapen wrote:
> Thomas Zander wrote:
> 
> >Is that not illigal in UML ?
> >
> NO AFAIK (don't know any paragraph in UML standard prohibiting it).
> 
> 
> 
> You need this for instance to model a double-linked-list, the node needs 
> to be associated with itself (for the previous and next pointers). BTW 
> it's also allowed in in Rational Rose and ArgoUML.

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander at earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new
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