CompoundTerm

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractCompoundTerm, Atom, CompoundTermImpl
```
public interface CompoundTerm
```
Interface to describe an ECLiPSe compound term. An object that implements it must be able to supply a functor, an arity, and arguments. The arguments may be of any Java class which represents an ECLiPSe data. Compound terms converted from EXDR format using EXDRInputStream implement this interface.
A compound term like p(q(2),a,"b") has functor "p" and arity 3, arg(1) is the term q(2) arg(2) is the term 'a' and arg(3) is the Java String "b".

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.lang.Object`	`arg(int i)`	Return the argument at position `i`.
`int`	`arity()`	Return the number of arguments.
`java.lang.String`	`functor()`	Return the functor of the compound term.

- Method Detail
  - functor
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java.lang.String functor()
```
    Return the functor of the compound term.
  - arity
```
int arity()
```
    Return the number of arguments.
  - arg
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java.lang.Object arg(int i)
```
    Return the argument at position i. The returned object will instantiate the Java class/interface representing the corresponding ECLiPSe data type.
    
    Parameters:
    
    i - may vary between 1 and arity()