Automatic generation produced by ISE Eiffel
indexing description: "[ Project-wide universal properties. This class is an ancestor to all developer-written classes. ANY may be customized for individual projects or teams. ]" status: "See notice at end of class" date: "$Date: 2001-11-16 20:32:23 +0000 (Fri, 16 Nov 2001) $" revision: "$Revision: 51435 $" class interface ANY feature -- Access generating_type: STRING -- Name of current object's generating type -- (type of which it is a direct instance) generator: STRING -- Name of current object's generating class -- (base class of the type of which it is a direct instance) feature -- Comparison frozen deep_equal (some: ANY; other: like some): BOOLEAN -- Are some and other either both void -- or attached to isomorphic object structures? ensure shallow_implies_deep: standard_equal (some, other) implies Result both_or_none_void: (some = void) implies (Result = (other = void)) same_type: (Result and (some /= void)) implies some.same_type (other) symmetric: Result implies deep_equal (other, some) frozen equal (some: ANY; other: like some): BOOLEAN -- Are some and other either both void or attached -- to objects considered equal? ensure definition: Result = (some = void and other = void) or else ((some /= void and other /= void) and then some.is_equal (other)) is_equal (other: like Current): BOOLEAN -- Is other attached to an object considered -- equal to current object? require other_not_void: other /= void ensure symmetric: Result implies other.is_equal (Current) consistent: standard_is_equal (other) implies Result frozen standard_equal (some: ANY; other: like some): BOOLEAN -- Are some and other either both void or attached to -- field-by-field identical objects of the same type? -- Always uses default object comparison criterion. ensure definition: Result = (some = void and other = void) or else ((some /= void and other /= void) and then some.standard_is_equal (other)) frozen standard_is_equal (other: like Current): BOOLEAN -- Is other attached to an object of the same type -- as current object, and field-by-field identical to it? require other_not_void: other /= void ensure same_type: Result implies same_type (other) symmetric: Result implies other.standard_is_equal (Current) feature -- Status report conforms_to (other: ANY): BOOLEAN -- Does type of current object conform to type -- of other (as per Eiffel: The Language, chapter 13)? require other_not_void: other /= void same_type (other: ANY): BOOLEAN -- Is type of current object identical to type of other? require other_not_void: other /= void ensure definition: Result = (conforms_to (other) and other.conforms_to (Current)) feature -- Duplication frozen clone (other: ANY): like other -- Void if other is void; otherwise new object -- equal to other -- -- For non-void other, clone calls copy; -- to change copying/cloning semantics, redefine copy. ensure equal: equal (Result, other) copy (other: like Current) -- Update current object using fields of object attached -- to other, so as to yield equal objects. require other_not_void: other /= void type_identity: same_type (other) ensure is_equal: is_equal (other) frozen deep_clone (other: ANY): like other -- Void if other is void: otherwise, new object structure -- recursively duplicated from the one attached to other ensure deep_equal: deep_equal (other, Result) frozen deep_copy (other: like Current) -- Effect equivalent to that of: -- temp := deep_clone (other); -- copy (temp) require other_not_void: other /= void ensure deep_equal: deep_equal (Current, other) frozen standard_clone (other: ANY): like other -- Void if other is void; otherwise new object -- field-by-field identical to other. -- Always uses default copying semantics. ensure equal: standard_equal (Result, other) frozen standard_copy (other: like Current) -- Copy every field of other onto corresponding field -- of current object. require other_not_void: other /= void type_identity: same_type (other) ensure is_standard_equal: standard_is_equal (other) feature -- Basic operations frozen default: like Current -- Default value of object's type default_create -- Process instances of classes with no creation clause. -- (Default: do nothing.) frozen default_pointer: POINTER -- Default value of type POINTER -- (Avoid the need to write p.default for -- some p of type POINTER.) default_rescue -- Process exception for routines with no Rescue clause. -- (Default: do nothing.) frozen do_nothing -- Execute a null action. frozen void: NONE -- Void reference feature -- Output io: STD_FILES -- Handle to standard file setup out: STRING -- New string containing terse printable representation -- of current object -- Was declared in ANY as synonym of tagged_out. print (some: ANY) -- Write terse external representation of some -- on standard output. frozen tagged_out: STRING -- New string containing terse printable representation -- of current object -- Was declared in ANY as synonym of out. feature -- Platform operating_environment: OPERATING_ENVIRONMENT -- Objects available from the operating system invariant reflexive_equality: standard_is_equal (Current) reflexive_conformance: conforms_to (Current) reflexive_equality: standard_is_equal (Current) reflexive_conformance: conforms_to (Current) indexing library: "[ EiffelBase: Library of reusable components for Eiffel. ]" status: "[ Copyright 1986-2001 Interactive Software Engineering (ISE). 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