How to specify "incomplete specification" e.g., ellipsis, in attributes and methods in a class diagram?

Question

In specifications that are partial, it's useful to specify an ellipsis (3 dots) for unspecified existing class attributes or methods.

I would like to do something like

class A {

i : integer

x : float

...

setI()

getI()

...

}

Unfortunately, "..." means a horizontal line in a class definition.

I found at least a partial work-around:

...()  will be recognized as a method and produces "...()"

As a solution, I'd suggestion special tokens inside a class, e.g., incomplete_attributes (to force an elipsis at the end of the attribute list) and similarly incomplete_methods

Answer 1

Hello,

We will probably change the parser so that ... will NOT be recognized as dotted line (because the "official" syntax is .. with 2 dots).

Another possible workaround right now is to put spaces between dots:

class A {
i : integer
x : float
. . .
--
setI()
getI()
. . .
}