Order of states in timing diagram

Question

I would like the possibility to specify the displayed order of the states in a timing diagram. Currently the states are displayed in the order they appear.

I have two basic use-cases, both having numerical values for the states and I want to have them displayed in the numerical order, i.e. the lowest value at the bottom.

Consider the following example:

@startuml
robust "Variable" as variable
robust "Binary" as binary

@variable
0 is 0
1 is 2
2 is 1
3 is 3
4 is "-2"

@binary
0 is 1
1 is 0
@enduml

Answer 1

I'd propse the following syntax:

robust "Variable" as variable
robust "Binary" as binary
variable has "-3"
variable has "-2"
variable has "-1"
variable has 0
variable has 1
variable has 2
variable has 3
variable is 0

binary has 0
binary has 1
binary is 1

@variable
0 is 0
1 is 2
2 is 1
3 is 3
4 is "-2"

@binary
0 is 1
1 is 0
@enduml

Comments

I'd like to be able to give short names to states as well.

Building on the above proposed syntax:

robust "Flow rate" as rate
rate has "35 gpm" as high
rate has "15 gpm" as low
rate has "0 gpm" as none

@0
rate is high

@5
rate is none

@6
rate is low

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Thanks all for your suggestions.

So last beta http://beta.plantuml.net/plantuml.jar supports following diagrams:

@startuml
robust "Flow rate" as rate
rate has "35 gpm" as high
rate has "15 gpm" as low
rate has "0 gpm" as none

@0
rate is high

@5
rate is none

@6
rate is low
@enduml


@startuml
robust "Flow rate" as rate
rate has high
rate has low
rate has none

@0
rate is high

@5
rate is none

@6
rate is low
@enduml

What do you think about it ?