Interface VariableCharacterisation

All Superinterfaces:
org.eclipse.emf.cdo.CDOObject, org.eclipse.emf.cdo.common.id.CDOWithID, EObject, Notifier, PCMBaseClass, PCMClass
All Known Implementing Classes:
VariableCharacterisationImpl

public interface VariableCharacterisation extends PCMBaseClass
A representation of the model object 'Variable Characterisation'. Variable characterisations store performance critical meta-information on a variable. For example, if a variable's value is used in a long running loop, the value of the variable is performance critical. Or as an other example, for Q-Sort it is performancewise important to know how much elements are in a given array and whether the array is sorted or not. Variable characterisations contain a type which tells what kind of meta-information is stored (STRUCTURE, NUMBER_OF_ELEMENTS, ...) and a PCMRandomVariable for storing the value of the characterisation. For example, in "a.NUMBER_OF_ELEMENTS=10" the a is the name of the variable, NUMBER_OF_ELEMENTS is the characterisation type and "10" would be the specification (as PCMRandomVariable) of the characterisation's value.

The following features are supported:

See Also:
Generated class or method.
EMF model class or method.