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Spin Model Checker, The: Primer and Reference Manual
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Spin Model Checker, The: Primer and Reference Manual

by Gerard J. Holzmann
September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
14h 14m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 16. PROMELA Language Reference

 

“The infinite multitude of things is incomprehensible, and more than a man may be able to contemplate.”

 
 --(Giambattista della Porta, 1535–1615, Natural Magick)

The PROMELA manual pages that are included in this book can be grouped into seven main sections. The first five of these sections, plus the grammar description given here, describe the language proper. The entries from the sixth section cover those things that are deliberately not in the language, and contain a brief explanation of why they were left out. The entries from the seventh and last section cover the more recent extensions to the PROMELA language to support the use of embedded C code statements and data declarations. The main sections are: ...

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