scale.clef.expr
Class AddressOp

java.lang.Object
  extended by scale.common.Root
      extended by scale.clef.Node
          extended by scale.clef.expr.Expression
              extended by scale.clef.expr.MonadicOp
                  extended by scale.clef.expr.AddressOp
All Implemented Interfaces:
AnnotationInterface, DisplayNode

public class AddressOp
extends MonadicOp

This class represents the operation of obtaining the address of some thing.

$Id: AddressOp.java,v 1.32 2005-09-09 15:13:53 burrill Exp $

Copyright 2005 by the Scale Compiler Group,
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst MA. 01003, USA
All Rights Reserved.

We take the address of an expression.


Constructor Summary
AddressOp(Type type, Expression e)
           
 
Method Summary
 void visit(Predicate p)
          Process a node by calling its associated routine.
 
Methods inherited from class scale.clef.expr.MonadicOp
containsDeclaration, equivalent, getChild, getDeclList, getExpr, isSimpleOp, numChildren, setExpr
 
Methods inherited from class scale.clef.expr.Expression
canonical, getConstantValue, getCoreType, getDisplayColorHint, getDisplayLabel, getDisplayShapeHint, getPointedToCore, getType, hasTrueFalseResult, setType, toStringSpecial
 
Methods inherited from class scale.clef.Node
getDecl, getSourceLineNumber, setAnnotationLevel, setReportLevel, setSourceLineNumber, toString, toString, toStringChildren
 
Methods inherited from class scale.common.Root
addAnnotation, allAnnotations, allMatchingAnnotations, getAnnotation, getDisplayName, getDisplayString, getNodeCount, getNodeID, hasAnnotation, hasEqualAnnotation, hashCode, removeAnnotation, removeAnnotations, toStringAnnotations, toStringClass, trace, trace, trace
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

AddressOp

public AddressOp(Type type,
                 Expression e)
Method Detail

visit

public void visit(Predicate p)
Description copied from class: Node
Process a node by calling its associated routine. See the "visitor" design pattern in Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by E. Gamma, et al, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63361-2.

Each class has a visit(Predicate p) method. For example, in class ABC:

   public void visit(Predicate p)
   {
     p.visitABC(this);
   }
 
and the class that implements Predicate has a method
   public void visitABC(Node n)
   {
     ABC a = (ABC) n;
     ...
   }
 
Thus, the class that implements Predicate can call
   n.visit(this);
 
where n is a Node sub-class without determining which specific sub-class n is. The visit pattern basically avoids implementing a large switch statement or defining different methods in each class for some purpose.

Overrides:
visit in class MonadicOp
See Also:
Predicate