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diff --git a/libjava/java/lang/CharSequence.java b/libjava/java/lang/CharSequence.java deleted file mode 100644 index 5c014e1..0000000 --- a/libjava/java/lang/CharSequence.java +++ /dev/null @@ -1,99 +0,0 @@ -/* CharSequence.java -- Anything that has an indexed sequence of chars - Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - -This file is part of GNU Classpath. - -GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify -it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) -any later version. - -GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but -WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU -General Public License for more details. - -You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the -Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA -02110-1301 USA. - -Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is -making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and -conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole -combination. - -As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you -permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an -executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent -modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under -terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked -independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that -module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from -or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend -this exception to your version of the library, but you are not -obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this -exception statement from your version. */ - - -package java.lang; - -/** - * General functions on a sequence of chars. This interface is implemented - * by <code>String</code>, <code>StringBuffer</code> and - * <code>CharBuffer</code> to give a uniform way to get chars at a certain - * index, the number of characters in the sequence and a subrange of the - * chars. Indexes start at 0 and the last index is <code>length()-1</code>. - * - * <p>Even when classes implement this interface they are not always - * exchangeble because they might implement their compare, equals or hash - * function differently. This means that in general one should not use a - * <code>CharSequence</code> as keys in collections since two sequences - * with the same chars at the same indexes with the same length might not - * have the same hash code, be equal or be comparable since the are - * represented by different classes. - * - * @author Mark Wielaard (mark@klomp.org) - * @since 1.4 - * @status updated to 1.4 - */ -public interface CharSequence -{ - /** - * Returns the character at the given index. - * - * @param i the index to retrieve from - * @return the character at that location - * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if i < 0 || i >= length() - 1 - */ - char charAt(int i); - - /** - * Returns the length of the sequence. This is the number of 16-bit - * characters in the sequence, which may differ from the length of the - * underlying encoding. - * - * @return the sequence length - */ - int length(); - - /** - * Returns a new <code>CharSequence</code> of the indicated range. - * - * @param begin the start index (inclusive) - * @param end the end index (exclusive) - * @return a subsequence of this - * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if begin > end || begin < 0 || - * end > length() - */ - CharSequence subSequence(int begin, int end); - - /** - * Returns the complete <code>CharSequence</code> as a <code>String</code>. - * Classes that implement this interface should return a <code>String</code> - * which contains only the characters in the sequence in the correct order. - * - * @return the character sequence as a String - */ - String toString(); -} |