[Uml-user] basic questions

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 06:12:48PM +0000, Bryan Lawrence wrote:
> On thinking about it, it does make sense to try and remain language agnostic 
> in the UML ... after all, it's not supposed to be a RAD tool per se ... 
> however, I do think any UML tool should support an array datatype because 
> that's a concept that is universal in real programming languages (ok, so I 
> confess to being a fortran programmer at heart).

Ah but arrays are supported by having a one to many link  1-----0..* 

> I'm not quite sure I understood your last sentence. Was that bit the bit in 
> your reply addressing my question about the attributes which are forced to be 
> integers (and nothing else - unlike the return values from operations, which 
> are allowed to be any builtin datatype). Did you mean then, that it shoudn't 
> do anything at all, or it should behave the same as the operations?

It was just a note to self.  If you create an attribute and give it
a type of an existing class it creates a datatype which it shouldn't.
Another beastie to fix.

Jonathan