Re: [tlaplus] Usage of brackets in TLC config file

[Willy Schultz <will62794@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting, thanks! This is more or less what I figured. It turns out this is a feature I was recently needing, which is why I was curious. That is, I needed to override an operator in an auxiliary module that was instantiated by the "main" spec being parsed by TLC, and needed the bracket syntax to refer to an operator inside the auxiliary module from a config file.

On Wednesday, August 18, 2021 at 4:56:47 PM UTC-4 Markus Alexander Kuppe wrote:

On 8/18/21 1:18 PM, Willy Schultz wrote:
> Is anyone familiar with the usage of brackets in a TLC config file as
> seen here
> <https://github.com/tlaplus/Examples/blob/15df8dd25e1a41fdc17f4aa79618d13dfd6e2b36/specifications/Paxos/MCPaxos.cfg#L9>?
> I have not encountered it before, and am unclear on its semantics. As
> far as I can tell, I don't see an explicit mention of it in Specifying
> Systems.

Hi Will,

Voting and Paxos both define a Ballot operator. Without the brackets,
MCPaxos.cfg override the definition of Ballot in Paxos (done a few
lines above in the .cfg), not in Voting. This feature was added in
2009. In other words, after the release of Specifying Systems.

The screenshot shows the Toolbox does the same.

M.

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