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Java
70 lines
2.8 KiB
Java
/* Comparable.java -- Interface for comparaing objects to obtain an ordering
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Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This file is part of GNU Classpath.
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GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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any later version.
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GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
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Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
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02111-1307 USA.
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Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is
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making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and
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conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole
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combination.
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As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
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permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
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executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent
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modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under
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terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked
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independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that
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module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from
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or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend
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this exception to your version of the library, but you are not
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obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this
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exception statement from your version. */
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package java.lang;
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/* Written using online API docs for JDK 1.2 beta from http://www.javasoft.com.
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* Status: Believed complete and correct.
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*/
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/**
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* Interface for objects that can be ordering among other
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* objects. The ordering can be <EM>total</EM>, such that two objects
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* only compare equal if they are equal by the equals method, or
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* <EM>partial</EM> such that this is not necessarily true. For
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* example, a case-sensitive dictionary order comparison of Strings
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* is total, but if it is case-insensitive it is partial, because
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* "abc" and "ABC" compare as equal even though "abc".equals("ABC")
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* returns false.
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*
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* @author Geoff Berry
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* @author Warren Levy <warrenl@cygnus.com>
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*
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* @since JDK1.2
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* @see java.util.Comparator
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*/
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public interface Comparable
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{
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/**
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* @return a negative integer if this object is less than
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* <code>o<code>, zero if this object is equal to <code>o</code>, or
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* a positive integer if this object is greater than <code>o</code>
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*/
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int compareTo( Object o );
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}
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