Short arrows for incoming and outgoing messages

Question

Currently incoming and outgoing mesages arrow in sequence diagramm cross over image from left/right border to target. I think, that good idea to add syntax to allow make this arrows shortly, like:

Bob         Alice                  Sam      

 |----------->|    incoming         |

 |            |    message to Sam   |

 |            |    ---------------->|

Answer 1

+1 for this request

Answer 2

Hello,

In V7974, the current syntax has been implemented as beta:

@startuml
[-> Alice : hello
[-> Bob : hello
?-> Bob : h
Alice ->] : a
Alice ->? : a
@enduml

Is this what you are expecting ?

Comments

Yes! It is correct and very nice :-) thank you for nice work!

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It is that I want. Thanks!

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Very useful! Here's another more explicit example