Chapter 10. Advanced Constructs
This chapter describes all the constructs with which you can write more advanced expressions, ranging from expressions that can be used only in postconditions to definitions of variables that are local to a context definition.
Constructs for Postconditions
There are two ways to write constraints for operations: preconditions and postconditions. In postconditions, you can use a number of special constructs. Two special keywords represent, to some extent, the working of time: result and @pre. Another aspect of time is represented by messaging. The following subsections explain all the constructs that can be used in postconditions only.
The @pre Keyword
The @pre keyword indicates the value of an attribute or association ...
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