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		<title>Jpye at 08:42, 13 May 2010</title>
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== Changes completed ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* Added &amp;#039;ASSERT expr&amp;#039; statement for [[ModelSelfTesting]].&lt;br /&gt;
* Added &amp;#039;FIX varlist&amp;#039; statement to facilitate more concise &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;specify&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; methods.&lt;br /&gt;
* Added &amp;#039;FREE varlist&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* Added short-form &amp;#039;IMPORT librarystemname&amp;#039; (assumes registration function named is &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;librarystemname_register&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
* Added a standard fall-back implementation of &amp;#039;default_all&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* New standard method &amp;#039;on_load&amp;#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Changes agreed ==&lt;br /&gt;
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== Changes proposed ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* Add a &amp;#039;PLOT instance&amp;#039; statement (currently only possible with [[ExtPy]]).&lt;br /&gt;
* Add a &amp;#039;SOLVE [WITH solver]&amp;#039; statement (can instead use &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;IMPORT &amp;quot;sensitivity/solve&amp;quot;&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
* Add a &amp;#039;SOLVER paramname&amp;amp;nbsp;:= paramvalue&amp;#039; statement for setting solver params (can instead use &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;IMPORT &amp;quot;johnpye/solvernotes&amp;quot;&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
* Add an &amp;#039;OBSERVE varlist&amp;#039; statement (no alternative is yet in place)&lt;br /&gt;
* Add &amp;#039;INDEPENDENT t &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;IS_A&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; time&amp;#039; statement for specifying independent variable in ODE/DAE simulation.&lt;br /&gt;
* Add [[LINK syntax]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Add &amp;#039;der(x)&amp;#039; statement for declaring/expressing derivatives of other variables.&lt;br /&gt;
* Reinvent the syntax entirely, in a much more open-source friendly way. [[AscendXSyntax]] discussion.&lt;br /&gt;
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== No longer under consideration ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* Add &amp;#039;PYTHON METHOD methodname&amp;#039; (see [[ExtPy]] for alternative approach)&lt;br /&gt;
* Add &amp;#039;METHOD methodname FROM PYTHON &amp;quot;filename&amp;quot;&amp;#039; (see [[ExtPy]] for alternative approach)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Discussions ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;/index.php?title=PerennialIssues&amp;amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;amp;redlink=1&amp;quot; class=&amp;quot;new&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;PerennialIssues (page does not exist)&amp;quot;&amp;gt;PerennialIssues&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; with ASCEND methods, 2005.12.26&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;/index.php?title=ConnectingToHighLevelLanguages&amp;amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;amp;redlink=1&amp;quot; class=&amp;quot;new&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;ConnectingToHighLevelLanguages (page does not exist)&amp;quot;&amp;gt;ConnectingToHighLevelLanguages&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;, 2006.01.08&lt;br /&gt;
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 [[Category:Proposed]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Development]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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