[Moose-dev] Re: Adding edges in Mondrian

I see your point. However, I am wondering about limitation of this declarative way of defining nodes and edges. Beside the fact that I had troubles to understand what's really going on when I write "view nodes: ..." and especially "view edges: ...", this syntax misses the inherent imperative way of defining a view with several kinds of nodes and edges. For example, to me, it looks perfectly reasonable to have -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= view shape: shape1. view nodes: (1 to: 99). view shape: shape2. view nodes: (100 to 199). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The example is contrived, but it reflect some situation where I need more than one "nodes:" or "edges:" at the same level. A more realistic example may be found in UML, where edges used for simple associations between classes are different from inheritance edges. I will typically add the simple association edges after having done the layout. I always though that having "addNodes:" and "addEdges:" is more explicit. It seems that Lukas came to the same conclusion (he used "addAll:"). But I might be wrong... Cheers, Alexandre On 24 Mar 2009, at 17:19, Tudor Girba wrote: -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.