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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2000
Donald P. Pazel, Montrose, NY (US);
Marcel R. Karam, Nova Scotia, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for depicting programming state of programming objects through a combination of associating semantic stat space with programming objects, updating semantic state through affiliated state updates with each programming action, and resolving the alternative programming states with a convergence operator defined on the semantic state space of the programming object type. The state reflection process is further defined in cases where the visual programming object participates in multiple execution paths, as would be the case in, for example, an IF statement wherein the variable is used on both the Left and Right sides. More particularly, this technique resolves these differing states back into a single state representation for the programming object.