EVALUATION OF A TEMPORAL DESCRIPTION WITHIN A GENERAL PURPOSE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

摘要

A translation module (102) translates a temporal description into a temporal expression. The translation module is adapted to translate a temporal description in the form of an extended syntax or a preprocessing macro (104) to the temporal expression. The temporal expression includes a native expression of a general purpose programming language. The temporal expression may also include one or more construct functions. A parsing module (106) parses the temporal expression to generate a data structure that represents the temporal expression without evaluating the native expression. An evaluation module (106) evaluates the data structure to execute the temporal expression including the native expression.