UML14 — UML 2 Issue: Connector types

PROBLEM STATEMENT
This is the definition of Connector (Superstructure, p. 163): "Specifies a
link that enables communication between two or more instances. This link may
be an instance of an association, or it may represent the possibility of the
instances being able to communicate because their identities are known by
virtue of being passed in as parameters, held in variables, created during
the execution of a behavior, or because the communicating instances are the
same instance. (...)"

This paragraph is clearly a reinterpretation of the five old association and
link stereotypes, now obsolete. Let's rewrite the second sentence as
follows, inserting those old stereotypes for clarity:

This link may be an instance of an association, <<association>>
or it may represent the possibility of the instances being able to
communicate because their identities are known
by virtue of being passed in as parameters, <<parameter>>
(by virtue of being) held in variables, <<???>>
(by virtue of being) created during the execution of a behavior, <<local>>
or because the communicating instances are the same instance. <<self>>

It seems that the concept conveyed by the old <<global>> stereotype has
completely disappeared (probably an improvement). But the comma between the
words "variables" and "created" suggests that a new kind of connector, or
link, has been introduced. But maybe the true intention of the writer was:

(by virtue of being) held in variables created during the execution of a
behavior, <<local>>

That is, the comma between the words "variables" and "created" would be
superfluous. It is not very important whether the kinds of Connector
correspond to the old stereotypes, but it is important to know how many
kinds of Connector there are.

PROPOSED SOLUTION
Suppress the comma between the words "variables" and "created".

see above