In the interest of research and all other things persuant to the ChronocidalManiac. Version 0.1 of the MetaModel for the GalacticModelingLanguage:
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| Box |__________
|_____|0..1 |
|2 |
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__|*_ __|1_
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|Line |_______|Label|
|_____|0..1 *|_____|
--DaveElton & DavidBates et al.
Now, let the debate about the cardinality of Box vs. Label begin
Too complicated and too verbose. All you'll ever need can be built from this metamodel:
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|Thing|______
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|_________|
Box, Line and Label are all instances of Thing. In English:
Things have things.
This sort of unified-theory minimalism arises in all seriousness sometimes, e.g. in the elegant Interviews GUI framework, everything was a box. It's also reminiscent of pure OO languages, where everything is an object.
Or, in abbreviated UmlAsciiArt
Diagram
[name,date,author,new(),save(),delete()]
Box *Diagram@
[X,Y,width,height,weight,borderColor,fillColor,create(),draw(),delete()]
Line *Box@
[X1,Y1,X2,Y2,weight,borderColor,fillColor,create(),draw(),delete()]
Label *Box@,*Line@
[name,fontType,foreColor,backColor,X,Y,create(),draw(),delete()]
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