Layers ~= Virtual (?) packages about nomnoml

[skanaar]

Happy to hear it is useful 😄

I would like nomnoml to support as much of the UML class diagram standard as possible. But one limitation is that one cannot draw relations across boundaries. Unfortunately I do not see that feature in the nearby future. But nothings impossible.

[zinkkrysty]

Drawing relations between boundaries is definitely a hot feature. I'd very much like that too.

By the way, excellent tool 👍 keep up the good work with it!

[RavenNevermore]

One possible substitution may be, to not have complete scopes, but to be able to separate parts of the diagram into lanes.

You could then be able, to draw a separator, and anything that is first declared before that, is rendered on top of the separator, while anything that is first declared afterwards, is rendered below.

The separator itself could be rendered as a simple line across the diagram, with optional text above and below the line.

The syntax could be something like this:

[A View]
[Another View]

View ==== Controller

[A Controller]

[A View]->[A Controller]

This way, you wouldn't need to have a full boundary and new namespace (and therefor won't need to invent a cross-boundaries naming schema) and the ASCIIness of the source code wouldn't look bad eigther.

[skanaar]

Closing this as it is the same as the more succinct #6