ALF_ — Referent of a signal send

Subject: Referent of a signal send

Subclauses: 13.2.3 BehaviorInvocationExpression, 13.2.17 FeatureInvocationExpression

The description of the InvocationExpression::referent property in Subclause 13.2.23 is “The behavior, operation or signal being invoked.” The featureInvocationExpressionReferentDerivation in Subclause 13.2.17 derives this property as the referent of the feature of the FeatureInvocationExpression. The behaviorInvocationExpressionReferentDerivation in Subclause 13.2.3 has derives the referent similarly, in the case that the target name of a BehaviorInvocationExpression disambiguates to a feature reference. However, for a signal send, the feature being referenced will actually be a reception for the signal, not the signal itself. The derivations in Subclauses 13.2.3 and 13.2.17 should be revised to account for this.

The constraint behaviorInvocationExpressionReferentDerivation actually already says “if the target disambiguates to a feature reference, the operation or signal being invoked”, which identifies that, for a signal send, the referent is the signal, not the reception. It is featureInvocationExpressionReferentDerivation that needs to be adjusted.