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Domain Specific Languages
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Domain Specific Languages

by Martin Fowler
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
15h 57m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 11. Semantic Model

The model that’s populated by a DSL.

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11.1 How It Works

In the context of a DSL, a semantic model is a representation, such as an in-memory object model, of the same subject that the DSL describes. If my DSL describes a state machine, then my Semantic Model might be an object model with classes for state, event, etc. A DSL script defining particular states and events would correspond to a particular population of that schema, with an event instance for each event declared in the DSL script. The Semantic Model is thus the library or framework that the DSL populates.

In this book, my Semantic Models are in-memory object ...

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