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On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Andrew Finney wrote:

>> d) add listOfStateVariables
>>
>> Those state variables can be any observables, already
>> declared as species
>> OR parameter OR compartment (the volume of a compartment can
>> be a state
>> variable!)
>
> I don't understand the motivation for this:
> species, parameter and compartment can all be declared as variables
> by setting constant = false (which is the default for species).
>
> What's the problem you are trying to solve?
> What is the form of a state variable structure?

I am not trying to solve anything. Personaly I'm mostly fine with the
current situation. I just meant to say that Herbert's (or Martin's)
state variables currently correspond to physical entities such as
species and compartments, or abstract constructs, stored as
parameters. If one creates a list of state variables, it should be
orthogonal to the other lists, not complementary. However, I perhaps
completely misundestood Herbert's and Martin's point. So I'll shut up
for now. ;-)

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