RE: Patches submitted for Bug 303744

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 14:02 -0600, Dave Klotzbach wrote:
> Yes and refer to Appendix B section Tagged values.
>  
>
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> Subject: RE: Patches submitted for Bug 303744
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> On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 11:49 -0600, Dave Klotzbach wrote:
> > I also corrected the way the comment are displayed. In UML comments 
> > are to be displayed as {documentation = ...} tags. With these patches 
> > dia now does this correctly for UMLClass objects.
> ...
> > The specification for UML are covered in general in the book "The 
> > Unified Modeling Language User Guide" by Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh 
> > and Ivar Jacobson. It only covers UML 1.0, but I was going to make UML 
> > compliant with that before tackling UML 2.0. You can find out more 
> > about UML 2.0 at http://www.uml.org/
>
> The newest UML 2.0 specs I can see appears to be
> http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/apps/doc?formal/05-07-04.pdf which defines
> comments as being in separate Note objects.  The oldest specs available
> there (1.3, at http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/apps/doc?formal/00-03-01.pdf)
> don't define anything like that either.  I've also never seen anything like
> it in any of the UML examples I've seen.  Maybe I should get the book.

I see.  *sigh*  That's the kind of thing that makes me want to add a
'Strict UML compliance' option:(  There's only four different tags
defined, why did they ever make the comment tag "Documentation"?  It
also appears to have been dropped later on, in 1.4.

-Lars

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Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>