Activity diagram - conditional node

[minastaros2]

I agree that a simple decision node is much clearer to read than a conditional node box, because to have 'test' and 'body' in two stacked compartments, visibly interrupting the control flow (connectors!), lets one stumble.

However I can imagine that for expressing a larger (maybe >4 cases) switch-case construct, which UML lacked so far, a kind of multi-conditional node (as I have seen somewhere) might be cleaner than a long chain of decision nodes (is 1? no, else - is 2? no, else - is 3?...).

And for a long time, I have been looking for a better loop construct which expresses the intention better than a loop made of decision nodes (see some early and still erroneous attempts here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15792687/loop-in-uml-activity-diagram-using-a-region).
Now I have just modelled an iterating-over-all-elements loop with an expansion region/nodes, which is pretty clean and beautiful.

Conclusion: imho, in some cases, these structured nodes can help, sometimes simple things are better.

Sorry, that was somewhat off-topic now... :-?

[qwerty]

No, it was not. Thanks for sharing your opinion.

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