edu.buffalo.fs7.mathlib
Class MathObject

java.lang.Object
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  +--edu.buffalo.fs7.mathlib.MathObject

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable

Direct Known Subclasses:

Argument, Assignment, Delimiter, MathMap, Operator, Separator, Variable

public class MathObject

extends java.lang.Object

implements java.lang.Cloneable

Generic class for mathematical entities in the mathlib package. Arguments like complex numbers as well as operators are derived from this object. It is intensely used by the Parse and the Tokenizer objects.

See Also:

Parse, Tokenizer, Complex

Field Summary

static Mathlib

mathlib holds a reference to an instantiated Mathlib object.

Constructor Summary

MathObject()
generic constructor

MathObject(MathObject o)
clone instructor

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	clone() clone method
java.lang.String	toParseableString() returns a parseable representation of the object
java.lang.String	toString() returns a string representation of the object (not necessarily parseable).

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

mathlib

public static Mathlib mathlib

holds a reference to an instantiated Mathlib object.

Constructor Detail

MathObject

public MathObject()

generic constructor

MathObject

public MathObject(MathObject o)

clone instructor

Method Detail

clone

public java.lang.Object clone()

clone method

Overrides:

clone in class java.lang.Object

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

returns a string representation of the object (not necessarily parseable).

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

See Also:

toParseableString()

toParseableString

public java.lang.String toParseableString()

returns a parseable representation of the object

See Also:

toString()