com.parctechnologies.eclipse

Class Atom

java.lang.Object

com.parctechnologies.eclipse.AbstractCompoundTerm

com.parctechnologies.eclipse.Atom

All Implemented Interfaces:

CompoundTerm

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

Constructors

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

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
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

Methods inherited from interface com.parctechnologies.eclipse.CompoundTerm

arity, functor

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

Parameters:

i - may vary between 1 and arity()

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object