SIMSCRIPT II.5 Programming Language

SIMSCRIPT II.5 Programming Language
5.5 SIMULATION ANALYSIS ............................................................................ 223
5.6 MODEL VERIFICATION AND DEBUGGING ................................................... 232
5.7 SYNCHRONOUS VARIABLES .....................................................................236
5.8 SIMULATION EXAMPLE ............................................................................ 238
5.8.1 A Sample Model................................................................................................ 238
6. ADVANCED TOPICS........................................................................................ 249
6.1 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 249
6.2 PROGRAMMER-DEFINED ARRAY STRUCTURES: POINTER VARIABLES .......249
6.3 STILL MORE ON CHANGING THE FLOW OF COMPUTATION .........................257
6.4 ATTRIBUTE DEFINITIONS: PACKING AND EQUIVALENCE ............................260
6.5 ATTRIBUTE DEFINITIONS: FUNCTIONS ......................................................271
6.6 COMPOUND ENTITIES INVOLVING TEMPORARY ENTITIES........................... 272
6.7 TWO ILLUSTRATIONS OF SET RANKING BY FUNCTION ATTRIBUTES ...........273
6.8 USING “OPTIONAL” ATTRIBUTES ...............................................................275
6.9 DELETION OF SET ROUTINES ................................................................. 278
6.10 LEFT-HANDED FUNCTIONS .....................................................................279
6.11 MONITORED VARIABLES .........................................................................282
6.12 IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS FOR THE TALLY STATEMENT .........................288
APPENDIX A. FORMAT CONVENTIONS USED IN PRINT STATMENTS...................... 291
APPENDIX B.FUNCTIONS AND ROUTINES .............................................................295
B.1 FUNCTIONS .................................................................................................295
B.2. ROUTINES ..................................................................................................305
APPENDIX C. SIMSCRIPT REFERENCE SYNTAX ................................................ 307
C.1 BASIC CONSTRUCTS................................................................................... 307
C.2 Primitives ..................................................................................................308
C.3 Metavariables ...........................................................................................309
C.3 THE STATEMENT SYNTAX ........................................................................... 312
C.5 Preamble Statement Precedence Rules ..................................................330
Index..................................................................................................................333
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