Introduction

One of the big change in this new version is the language, which is a Domain-specific language (DSL).

The new GAML (GIS & Agent-based Modeling Language) is based on Xtext, an Eclipse Textual Modeling framework.

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Some changes

Compare to XML, the Xtext-based GAML is relying to its own specific grammar, so there is a set of rules that were not necessarily in XML.

For instance, the unary keywords have disappeared, you should now write them as function, ie: length myList to length(myList)

and to cast, you should use instead of myGrid location the following location as myGrid