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OCL231 — on page 153 oclIsInState is used instead of oclInState

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  • Key: OCL231-31
  • Legacy Issue Number: 16260
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Vienna University of Economics and Business ( Bernhard Hoisl)
  • Summary:

    On page 153 oclIsInState(statespec : OclState) is used to check if an object is in a specified state. But in Section 7.5.9 on page 22 oclInState(statespec : OclState) is used for this purpose and examples are given.

    There is one more occurrence of oclIsInState on page 47 of Section 8.3.1, but this is talking about the abstract syntax, therefore it could be valid. But I think definitely not for the concrete syntax of the OCL.

    Strangely enough the Eclipse Interactive OCL Console implements oclIsInState() and not oclInState().

    I would appreciate a clarification which statement to use very much!
  • Reported: OCL 2.3 — Fri, 20 May 2011 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — OCL 2.3.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    If it was a popularity contest, oclInState would win because there are many occurences in Clause 7, but Clause 7 is not normative.
    Excluding clause 7, oclIsInState has two occurences to oclInState's one. More importantly, the definition in 11.3.1 is oclIsInState.
    Stylistically, all other ocl-prefixed methods returning boolean are oclIs...
    Let's go for oclIsInState
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:58 GMT