SYSML11 — SysML:Ports can't be blocks

Apparently from 9.3.2.3 while you can type a flowport by a block, that block indicates the things that flow over the port.

A more intuitive interpretation would be that the flowport is a block. Most flowports appear to be physical things that may convey blocks.

Without the ability to indicate the physical thing that is the block, you lose the ability to specify it, reuse it, define it, etc.

It’s much more intuitive to indicate that the flowport is a

US-110voltACmale

In addition, for example, in Figure B.19. There are flowpoints named

Port:FuelTankFitting

Port:ICEFuelFitting

Based on section 9.3.2.3, these flowports convey Fittings, not Fuel.

There needs to be a way, preferably graphically, that would indicate that the type of Flowport is a block, and in that block, allow for the definitiaojn of what flows.

Ports are properties, so cannot be blocks, but the resolution of issue 13178
clarifies that some ports represent a new, potentially physical, element in the
system (full ports). These can be typed by blocks that have flow properties as
well as other kinds of properties, as suggested above. Some ports do not
represent a new element in the system (proxy ports). Flow specifications and
non-atomic flow ports are deprecated.as redundant.