fcmodeler.mapping
Interface Connective

All Known Implementing Classes:
OrConnective, AndConnective

public interface Connective

A connective used to create complex sentences. Concrete implementations provide the actual functionality of their connective. This interface is mainly geared towards logical operator connectives, such as AND, OR, etc.

Since:
JDK1.3
Version:
$Revision: 1.1 $
Author:
Julie Dickerson , Zach Cox

Method Summary
 boolean evaluate(boolean first, boolean second)
          Evaluates the sentence first CONNECTIVE second using this connective.
 

Method Detail

evaluate

public boolean evaluate(boolean first,
                        boolean second)
Evaluates the sentence first CONNECTIVE second using this connective.
Parameters:
first - the first term in the sentence.
second - the second term in the sentence.
Returns:
true if the sentence evaluates to true; false otherwise.