- Authors: Joseph T. Buck
- Other Contributors: Neil Smyth
Ptolemy is an extensible system, and in quite a few places it must create objects given only the name of that object. There are therefore several classes that are responsible for maintaining lists: the list of all known domains, of all known blocks, states, targets, etc. As a general rule, these classes support a clone or makeNew method to create a new object based on its name (you cannot clone a domain, however).
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