[news.eclipse.modeling.m2m] Re: Does transformation rules order matter?

[Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@xxxxxx>]

Jorge Manrubia wrote:
> We have a transformation file wich works properly when rules present a 
> certain order in the ATL file (primitive transformation first, complex 
> transformation last).
>
> After reading the ATL execution semantics of the manual I think that 
> this is not the expected result (that order shouldn't matter), so we 
> might be using the language in the wrong way.
>
> So, do we pay attention to the order of transformation rules?

The order of the transformation rules should indeed be indifferent
Every functional transformation language (XSLT/ATL/...) works this way.

Could there some dependency between them (e.g. that the complex rule
references a resulting element from the simpler rules, either direct
or through thisModule.resolveTemp()) ?

Rene