§4.2.(b) Additive composition

The before and after modifiers have the effect of adding a call to the role method at the beginning or end of the base method, resp.
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.

Example code (Callin):
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team class Company {
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  protected class Employee playedBy Person {
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    public void recalculateIncome() { ... }
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    recalculateIncome <- after haveBirthday; // callin binding
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  }
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}

Line 4 declares a callin binding for the role method recalculateIncome() defined in line 3. In combination with the role binding in line 2 this has the following effect:

  • After every call of the method Person.haveBirthday the method Company.recalculateIncome is called.