/interpreter/tags/at2dist220411/src/edu/vub/at/objects/natives/grammar/AGAssignmentSymbol.java
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1/** 2 * AmbientTalk/2 Project 3 * AGAssignmentSymbol.java created on 2-jul-2007 at 13:45:32 4 * (c) Programming Technology Lab, 2006 - 2007 5 * Authors: Tom Van Cutsem & Stijn Mostinckx 6 * 7 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person 8 * obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation 9 * files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without 10 * restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, 11 * copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or 12 * sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the 13 * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following 14 * conditions: 15 * 16 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be 17 * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. 18 * 19 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, 20 * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES 21 * OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND 22 * NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT 23 * HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, 24 * WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING 25 * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR 26 * OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. 27 */ 28package edu.vub.at.objects.natives.grammar; 29 30import edu.vub.at.exceptions.InterpreterException; 31import edu.vub.at.exceptions.XIllegalOperation; 32import edu.vub.at.objects.ATContext; 33import edu.vub.at.objects.ATObject; 34import edu.vub.at.objects.ATText; 35import edu.vub.at.objects.grammar.ATAssignmentSymbol; 36import edu.vub.at.objects.grammar.ATSymbol; 37import edu.vub.at.objects.natives.NATText; 38import edu.vub.util.TempFieldGenerator; 39 40/** 41 * An assignment symbol is created by suffixing an ordinary symbol with a :=. It can be created 42 * explicitly through qutoting and is created when assigning a field at base-level to map such 43 * assignments onto a method invocation. Also it can be created when explicitly defining accessor 44 * methods. 45 * 46 * @author smostinc 47 */ 48public class AGAssignmentSymbol extends AGSymbol implements ATAssignmentSymbol { 49 50 /** 51 * @param name a string with a ':=' suffix 52 */ 53 public static AGSymbol jAlloc(String name) { 54 synchronized (_STRINGPOOL_) { 55 AGSymbol existing = (AGSymbol) _STRINGPOOL_.get(name); 56 if (existing == null) { 57 existing = new AGAssignmentSymbol(name); 58 _STRINGPOOL_.put(name, existing); 59 } 60 return existing; 61 } 62 } 63 64 protected AGAssignmentSymbol(String txt) { 65 // cut the := part of the symbol name, e.g. foo:= -> foo 66 super(txt.substring(0,txt.length()-2)); 67 } 68 69 public boolean isAssignmentSymbol() { 70 return true; 71 } 72 73 public AGAssignmentSymbol asAssignmentSymbol() { 74 return this; 75 } 76 77 public ATText base_text() { 78 return NATText.atValue(toString()); 79 } 80 81 /** 82 * It is illegal to evaluate an assignment symbol in base-level code 83 */ 84 public ATObject meta_eval(ATContext ctx) throws InterpreterException { 85 throw new XIllegalOperation("Cannot evaluate an assignment symbol as an ordinary symbol"); 86 } 87 88 public NATText meta_print() { 89 return NATText.atValue(toString()); 90 } 91 92 public NATText impl_asCode(TempFieldGenerator objectMap) throws InterpreterException { 93 return NATText.atValue(toString()); 94 } 95 96 public ATObject meta_resolve() throws InterpreterException { 97 return AGAssignmentSymbol.jAlloc(toString()); 98 } 99 100 public String toString() { 101 return super.toString() + ":="; 102 } 103 104 /** 105 * @return the field name being assigned by this assignment symbol 106 */ 107 public ATSymbol base_fieldName() { 108 return AGSymbol.jAlloc(super.toString()); 109 } 110 111}