icyphy / ptII

Ptolemy II is an open-source software framework supporting experimentation with actor-oriented design.
https://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII
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Create type system mechanism to handle data with unknown type at preinitialize() #296

Closed cxbrooks closed 11 years ago

cxbrooks commented 12 years ago

Note: the issue was created automatically with bugzilla2github tool

Original bug ID: BZ#499 From: Elizabeth Latronico <beth@berkeley.edu> Reported version: 8.1.devel CC: @lhstrh, ptango@chess.eecs.berkeley.edu

Blocker for: BZ#491

cxbrooks commented 12 years ago

For example, JSON data from a website

cxbrooks commented 11 years ago

This problem has been solved by backward type inference, which is documented in the following technical publication: http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/974.html