com.parctechnologies.eclipse
Class Atom

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.parctechnologies.eclipse.AbstractCompoundTerm
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        +--com.parctechnologies.eclipse.Atom

public class Atom

extends AbstractCompoundTerm

implements CompoundTerm

An ECLiPSe atom. Although atoms are not strictly compound terms, this class implements the CompoundTerm interface (it has 0 arguments), so it can be passed to and returned by rpc methods.

See Also:

CompoundTerm

Constructor Summary

Atom(java.lang.String functor)
Create an Atom given its functor as a String.

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	arg(int i) This always throws an IndexOutOfBoundsException since the Atom has no arguments.
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class com.parctechnologies.eclipse.AbstractCompoundTerm

arity, equals, functor, hashCode

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Atom

public Atom(java.lang.String functor)

Create an Atom given its functor as a String.

Method Detail

arg

public java.lang.Object arg(int i)

This always throws an IndexOutOfBoundsException since the Atom has no arguments. Note that a "throws" clause in the CompoundTerm interface is unnecessary since this is RuntimeException.

Specified by:

arg in interface CompoundTerm

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object