Data Type declaration

Question

I want to declare an array called Machine consists of 4 elements. Each element is also an array of 2 elements, where, values of the first element are obtained from the enumeration: pressionLevel={below, normal, over} And the second one has values from the enumeration: action={start, pause, stop, restart}

My second question is how to access to elements of this array?

VAR

 pressionLevel={below, normal, over};

 action={start, pause, stop, restart};

 machine= array 1..4  -- how to continue this declaration?? --

Patrick Trentin · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-01T15:23:14.907

AFAIK, arrays of arrays are not directly supported.

You can either create a different name for each instance of an element module (see machine01), or scrap the element module and push its content within the machine module (see machine02).

e.g.:

MODULE element()
VAR
    pressionLevel : { BELOW, NORMAL, OVER };
    action        : { START, PAUSE, STOP, RESTART };

MODULE machine01()
VAR
    el1 : element();
    el2 : element();
    el3 : element();
    el4 : element();

MODULE machine02()
VAR
    pressionLevel : array 1..4 of { BELOW, NORMAL, OVER };
    action        : array 1..4 of { START, PAUSE, STOP, RESTART };

MODULE main()
VAR
    m1 : machine01();
    m2 : machine02();

The elements of an array can be accessed using constant indexes, e.g.:

next(precisionLevel[0]) := BELOW

When using the constraint-style modeling, it is easy to model something which has unintended consequences, or to write some constraint that is manageable for very small arrays but, for some reasons, it quickly blows up for larger ones. So I would advice using the assignment-style modeling only, or to expand a constraint like

precisionLevel[i] = BELOW => ... some consequence ...

as follows

 ((i = 0 & precisionLevel[0] = BELOW) => ... some consequence ...)
 &
 ((i = 1 & precisionLevel[1] = BELOW) => ... some consequence ...)
 &
 ...

where i is a variable acting as an index for the array precisionLevel, and the constraint is expanded over the entire domain of i.

I think I can replace your 1st proposition : MODULE machine01() VAR el1 : element(); el2 : element(); el3 : element(); el4 : element(); By the following code: el : array 1..4 of element; — sam, Jul 01 '19 at 22:53
@sam if you try, you should get an error stating that modules inside arrays are not supported. — Patrick Trentin, Jul 01 '19 at 23:40

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