Chapter 3
ASPL Grouping Containment
Two containers are managed within ASPL. Each of these containers has its own loader so it can be dynamically refreshed and reloaded by ASPL. The first is the Element Grouping Class Container (denoted with egC-container) that loads the grouping class modules that describes the meta data characteristics of a group along its elements and their associated attributes. The second is the Global Grouping Functions Container (denoted with GG-container) that loads grouping processors (called GG-functions or GGs). The output of a GG-func is typically a data structure known to ASPL as Grouping Algebraic Data groups (denoted by GADg). A GADg object is the fundamental object that is known to ASPL internal processing algorithms. The containment of GG-functions is dynamically loadable and the user is offered commands and startup options to control the GG-container. These functions are loadable within ASPL GG-container. ASPL provides the ggls command to reload the container and to display the GGs functions. The GGs functions are programmable functions and the user can write such functions to generate GADg objects representing datasets. This chapter introduces the GG-Container and its loadable GG-functions. This chapter introduces the egC-container and the GG-Container.
