From 473f176bc8bd184bcbb61c9ad24951503f636ca5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Christian Y. Brenninkmeijer"
 <christian.brenninkmeijer@manchester.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 07:03:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] default_initial_values

---
 spynnaker/pyNN/models/defaults.py | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spynnaker/pyNN/models/defaults.py b/spynnaker/pyNN/models/defaults.py
index 418fd64777..8ff77f1619 100644
--- a/spynnaker/pyNN/models/defaults.py
+++ b/spynnaker/pyNN/models/defaults.py
@@ -33,9 +33,23 @@ class UsesDefaults(object):
     @abstractmethod
     def default_parameters(self):
         """
+        The default None initial values in the init
+
         Will be filled in with the parameters in the init by @defaults
+
+        It will all values with a default value expect those declared with
+        @default_initial_values
         """
 
+    @property
+    @abstractmethod
+    def default_initial_values(self):
+        """
+        The default values of the state values.
+
+        Formal PyNN specifies that these should be set using
+        initial_values not cell_params
+        """
 
 def _check_args(
         args_to_find: FrozenSet[str], default_args: List[str],