jbil.sequence
Class AtomicCharSymbol

java.lang.Object
  jbil.sequence.CharSymbol
      jbil.sequence.AtomicCharSymbol

All Implemented Interfaces:

AtomicSymbol, Symbol

public class AtomicCharSymbol
extends CharSymbol
implements AtomicSymbol

An atomic char symbol is an atomic symbol associated to a character 'image'. This is the basic kind of symbol that will be used for most sequences.

Author:

Paulo G. S. da Fonseca

Constructor Summary

AtomicCharSymbol(char c)
Creates an atomic character symbol associated to a given char.

Method Summary

char	charValue()
Alphabet	getMatches()
boolean	isAtomic()

Methods inherited from class jbil.sequence.CharSymbol

arity, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface jbil.sequence.Symbol

arity, toString

Constructor Detail

AtomicCharSymbol

public AtomicCharSymbol(char c)

Creates an atomic character symbol associated to a given char.

Parameters:

c - The image of the symbol.

Method Detail

charValue

public char charValue()

Specified by:

charValue in class CharSymbol

Returns:

The character image of the symbol.

getMatches

public Alphabet getMatches()

Specified by:

getMatches in interface Symbol

Returns:

The alphabet of symbols matching this symbol.

isAtomic

public boolean isAtomic()

Specified by:

isAtomic in interface Symbol

Returns:

True if the symbol is atomic, or false, otherwise.