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. 2018 Nov 5;12:68. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2018.00068

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Copyright © 2018 Blundell, Brette, Cleland, Close, Coca, Davison, Diaz-Pier, Fernandez Musoles, Gleeson, Goodman, Hines, Hopkins, Kumbhar, Lester, Marin, Morrison, Müller, Nowotny, Peyser, Plotnikov, Richmond, Rowley, Rumpe, Stimberg, Stokes, Tomkins, Trensch, Woodman and Eppler.

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Example definition of a NESTML concept and generation of the AST. (Left) A production for a function in NESTML. The lefthandside defines the name of the production, the righthandside defines the production using terminals, other productions and special operators (*, ?). A function starts with the keyword function followed by the function's name and an optional list of parameters enclosed in parentheses followed by the optional return value. Optional parts are marked with ?. The function body is specified by the production (Block) between two keywords. (Right) The corresponding automatically derived meta-model as a class diagram. Every production is mapped to an AST class, which is used in the further language processing steps.