Collaborations

Figure 5 shows important object interactions. It refers to ``@'' for an infix function application syntax (see sample code in section 2.9).

• A client initializes a function package in order to create a generic function from it. The client applies the generic function to the source structure in order to obtain the translation result.
• The generic function consults the function package for a specialized function that matches the type of the argument. Then it applies a cloned exemplar of the specialized function to the argument.
• A specialized function recursively calls its associated generic function to the subcomponents of its argument. Then it creates the target element while providing it with the results of the subcomponent evaluation.

  

Figure 5: Interaction diagram

Note that the time line gaps in figure 5 denote potential recursive mappings of subcomponents.