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<p>The <code>before</code> and <code>after</code> modifiers have the
effect of adding a call to the role method at the beginning or end
of the base method, resp.<br />
In this case no data are transferred from the role to the base,
so if the role method has a result, this will always be ignored.
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<h5 class="listing">Example code (Callin):</h5>
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<td><pre><b>team</b> <b>class</b> Company {</pre></td>
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<td class="ln">2</td>
<td><pre> <b>protected</b> <b>class</b> Employee <b>playedBy</b> Person {</pre></td>
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<td><pre> <b>public</b> <b>void</b> recalculateIncome() { ... }</pre></td>
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<td class="ln">4</td>
<td><pre> recalculateIncome <em><b>&lt;-</b> after</em> haveBirthday; <span class="comment">// callin binding</span></pre></td>
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<td><pre> }</pre></td>
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<td><pre>}</pre></td>
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<p>Line 4 declares a callin binding for the role method <code>recalculateIncome()</code>
defined in line 3. In combination with the role binding in line 2 this has the following effect:
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<li><strong>After</strong> every call of the method <code>Person.haveBirthday</code>
the method <code>Company.recalculateIncome</code> is called.
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