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Bug 362158

Summary: Metamodel may not be omitted from the module declaration
Product: [Modeling] Acceleo Reporter: Ed Willink <ed>
Component: CoreAssignee: Project Inbox <acceleo-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: P3 CC: laurent.goubet
Version: 3.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows Vista   
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Description Ed Willink CLA 2011-10-27 04:02:02 EDT 
It is possible to write an imported module that provides helper queries and templates using only the Standard Library types, so no metamodel is necessary for resolving declarations.

If the meta-model is omitted on te module declaration (wirth or without empty parentheses) a "The metamodel is required" is produced.
Comment 1 Laurent Goubet CLA 2011-10-27 04:38:39 EDT 
That was once working, and should anew. This will be in 3.3 (3.2 will be release next week and we no longer change it).
Comment 2 Laurent Goubet CLA 2016-04-06 10:39:46 EDT 
This actually never worked (checking the history) and would require changes throughout the parser since it assumes it has a metamodel in many places. This is a minor annoyance for people creating "utility" templates without any use of modelled types, so we do not plan on changing this behavior.