Unused selects in SHTOLO

[Rob Bodington]

Hi David
I am asking for the tools to provide me with the option.

However, as my aim is to produce a valid long form for an AP, I guess
that affects the EXPRESS LRM.

Regards
Rob

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Price [mailto:david.price at eurostep.com]
> Sent: 13 October 2003 10:36
> To: 'Rob Bodington'; staub at pdtec.de
> Cc: expressIF at tc184-sc4.org; wg11 at steptools.com
> Subject: RE: Unused selects in SHTOLO
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> Are you asking for a change to the EXPRESS LRM itself or a change in
the
> EXPRESS tools as a convenience?
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-wg11 at steptools.com [mailto:owner-wg11 at steptools.com] On
Behalf
> Of Rob Bodington
> Sent: 13 October 2003 10:21
> To: staub at pdtec.de
> Cc: expressIF at tc184-sc4.org; wg11 at steptools.com
> Subject: RE: Unused selects in SHTOLO
> 
> Hi Günter
> I think that there should be an option to prune unused constants,
types,
> functions and procedures from a long form as well.
> 
> Regards
> Rob
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> Rob Bodington
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Günter Staub [mailto:staub at pdtec.de]
> > Sent: 13 October 2003 10:02
> > To: 'Rob Bodington'
> > Cc: expressIF at tc184-sc4.org; wg11 at steptools.com
> > Subject: RE: Unused selects in SHTOLO
> >
> > Rob,
> >
> > some time ago I proposed this behaviour, but there was some
objections
> > against it (but I do not remember when and from whom).
> > I do not have a real problem to provide a switch for allowing to
prune
> > unused types, but in this case the possibility should be mentioned
(as
> a
> > note?) somewhere in the Annex of the EXPRESS LRM (either as a last
> step in
> > the longform generation or during the EXPRESS:1994 transformation).
> >
> > Question: what about other unused types, unused functions,
constants,
> etc.
> > which do not result from the long form generation? We need a very
> clear
> > answer here also.
> >
> >
> > Rgds,
> > Gunter
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Bodington [mailto:rob.bodington at eurostep.com]
> > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 9:53 AM
> > To: expressIF at tc184-sc4.org; wg11 at steptools.com
> > Subject: Unused selects in SHTOLO
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Most extensible selects in the modules are used for the following
> > template.
> >
> > You have a base extensible select that is referenced by a single
> > attribute in some relationship entity. This select is then extended
> with
> > entities in the relationship whenever the module is reused. These
> > extended selects are not really used other than to create a
population
> > for the base select. i.e. there are no attributes with the select as
> the
> > corresponding types.
> >
> > For example.
> >
> > TYPE approval_item = EXTENSIBLE GENERIC_ENTITY SELECT;
> > END_TYPE;
> >
> > ENTITY Approval;
> >   status : Approval_status;
> >   purpose : STRING;
> >   planned_date : OPTIONAL date_or_date_time_select;
> >   actual_date : OPTIONAL date_or_date_time_select;
> > END_ENTITY;
> >
> > The approval_item is then extended in a number of modules. E.g.
> >
> > TYPE ap239_mri_approval_item = EXTENSIBLE GENERIC_ENTITY SELECT
> BASED_ON
> > approval_item WITH
> >    (Contract_assignment,
> >     Event,
> >     Event_assignment,
> >     Identification_assignment,
> >     Project,
> >     Project_assignment);
> > END_TYPE;
> >
> > ap239_mri_approval_item is not really used anywhere - it simply
there
> to
> > provide a population of approval_item.
> >
> > The consequence of this is that a resulting long form has a number
of
> > selects that are not really used at all - they are a side affect of
> the
> > process of populating the base select.
> >
> > Consequently I was thinking that it would be a good idea if the
tools
> > provide the option to the e2 to e1 SHTOLO to prune any extended
select
> > that is not used by any attribute or other select.
> >
> > What does everyone think?
> >
> > Regards
> > Rob
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Rob Bodington
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> >
> >
> >
> 
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