I've been thinking of the slice construct, and for me it just does not quite work. When proposing these terms, i was thinking about variables that area already being kept / calculated by simulation tools. In that way it is not really a slicing of the data, but telling which aspect of an entity to access. So while it may seem cumbersome to add terms like:
- initialConcentration
- initialAmount
- initialParticleNumber
- initialValue (for parameters / compartments) or even initialVolume / initialSize (for compartments that would be synonyms of initialValue)
For me that seems more reasonable than a slice construct.
I agree the slice construct could be mapped to that, but i would prefer a term for the former.
cheers
Frank
P.S: final would just be a synonym for end?