UML/SysML: Cameo Simulation Toolkit 19SP3: GOTCHA: Will not evaluate a guard using a token from a decisionInputFlow UNLESS a decisionInput Behaviour is explicitly defined (but Alf does)

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Magic Model Analyst® (Cameo Simulation Toolkit®) does not handle the following correctly without an explicit decisionInput Behaviour (but Action Language for Foundational UML (Alf) does), the [true] edge in the diagram shown will always be taken, no matter what the test:Boolean value is:
Related: Alf cleverly permits use in the outgoing edge guards of the name of an OutputPin that is the source of a decisionInputFlow, or the name of decisionInputFlow edge (if given).
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