"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1988 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

"{ Package: 'stx:libbasic' }"

Object subclass:#Magnitude

	instanceVariableNames:''

	classVariableNames:''

	poolDictionaries:''

	category:'Magnitude-General'

!

!Magnitude class methodsFor:'documentation'!

copyright

"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1988 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

!

documentation

"

    This is an abstract class definining common methods for

    Objects which can be compared by a kind of less than relation.

    [author:]

        Claus Gittinger

"

! !

!Magnitude class methodsFor:'queries'!

isAbstract

    ^ self == Magnitude

! !

!Magnitude methodsFor:'comparing'!

< aMagnitude

    "Compare the receiver with the argument and return true if the

     receiver is less than the argument. Otherwise return false."

    ^ self subclassResponsibility

!

<= aMagnitude

    "return true, if the argument is greater or equal than the receiver"

    ^ (aMagnitude < self) not

!

= aMagnitude

    "Compare the receiver with the argument and return true if the

     receiver is equal to the argument. Otherwise return false."

    ^ self subclassResponsibility

!

> aMagnitude

    "return true, if the argument is less than the receiver"

    ^ aMagnitude < self

!

>= aMagnitude

    "return true, if the argument is less or equal than the receiver"

    ^ (self < aMagnitude) not

!

clampBetween:min and:max

    "return the receiver if its between min .. max,

     or min if its less than min, or max of its greater than max.

     This is only a lazy-typers helper for: ((something min:max) max:min)"

    (max < self) ifTrue:[^ max].

    (self < min) ifTrue:[^ min].

    ^ self

    "

     1 clampBetween:2 and:5  

     3 clampBetween:2 and:5  

     6 clampBetween:2 and:5  

    "

    "Modified: 19.4.1996 / 14:58:12 / cg"

!

compare:arg ifLess:lessBlock ifEqual:equalBlock ifGreater:greaterBlock

    "three-way compare - thanks to Self for this idea.

     Can be redefined in subclasses to do it with a single comparison if

     comparison is expensive."

    self < arg ifTrue:[

	^ lessBlock value

    ].

    self = arg ifTrue:[

	^ equalBlock value

    ].

    ^ greaterBlock value

!

max:aMagnitude

    "return the receiver or the argument, whichever has greater magnitude"

    (aMagnitude < self) ifTrue:[^ self].

    ^ aMagnitude

    "

     1 max: 2

     1 max: 2.0

     2.0 max: 1.0

     2.0 max: 2

    "

!

min:aMagnitude

    "return the receiver or the argument, whichever has lesser magnitude"

    (self < aMagnitude) ifTrue:[^ self].

    ^ aMagnitude

    "

     1 min: 2

     1 min: 2.0

     2.0 min: 1.0

     2.0 min: 2

    "

! !

!Magnitude methodsFor:'iteration'!

downTo:stop do:aBlock

    "For each element of the interval from the receiver down to the argument stop,

     evaluate aBlock, passing the number as argument."

    ^ self to:stop by:-1 do:aBlock

    "

     10 downTo:1 do:[:i | Transcript showCR:i].

     $d downTo:$a do:[:i | Transcript showCR:i].

    "

!

to:stop by:incr do:aBlock

    "For each element of the interval from the receiver up to the argument stop, incrementing

     by step, evaluate aBlock passing the element as argument.

     Not all Magnitudes do implement #negative and #+ however, 

     so should this method go to ArithmethicValue?

     Only use #<, to speed up things (for subclasses only defining #<)"

    |tmp|

    tmp := self.

"using #negative would be more portable, but stc does only inline #< but not #negative (yet)"

"/    incr negative ifTrue:[

    incr < 0 ifTrue:[

        [tmp < stop] whileFalse:[

            aBlock value:tmp.

            tmp := tmp+incr

        ]

    ] ifFalse:[

        [stop < tmp] whileFalse:[

            aBlock value:tmp.

            tmp := tmp+incr

        ]

    ]

    "

     1 to:10 do:[:i | Transcript showCR:i].

     1 to:10 by:2 do:[:i | Transcript showCR:i].

     $a to:$z by:2 do:[:i | Transcript showCR:i].

     10 to:1 by:-1 do:[:i | Transcript showCR:i].

    "

!

to:stop by:incr doWithBreak:aBlock

    "For each element of the interval from the receiver up to the argument stop, incrementing

     by step, evaluate aBlock passing the element as argument.

     Pass a break argument, to allow for premature exit of the loop."

    |tmp break|

    break := [^ self].

    tmp := self.

"using #negative would be more portable, but stc does only inline #< but not #negative (yet)"

"/    incr negative ifTrue:[

    incr < 0 ifTrue:[

        [tmp < stop] whileFalse:[

            aBlock value:tmp value:break.

            tmp := tmp+incr

        ]

    ] ifFalse:[

        [stop < tmp] whileFalse:[

            aBlock value:tmp value:break.

            tmp := tmp+incr

        ]

    ]

    "

     1 to:100 by:5 doWithBreak:[:index :break |

        Transcript showCR:index printString.

        index > 50 ifTrue:[

            break value

        ].

     ]

    "

!

to:stop by:incr doWithExit:aBlock

    "For each element of the interval from the receiver up to the argument stop, incrementing

     by step, evaluate aBlock passing the element as argument.

     Pass a break argument, to allow for premature exit of the loop."

    |tmp exit|

    exit := [:exitValue | ^ exitValue].

    tmp := self.

"using #negative would be more portable, but stc does only inline #< but not #negative (yet)"

"/    incr negative ifTrue:[

    incr < 0 ifTrue:[

        [tmp < stop] whileFalse:[

            aBlock value:tmp value:exit.

            tmp := tmp+incr

        ]

    ] ifFalse:[

        [stop < tmp] whileFalse:[

            aBlock value:tmp value:exit.

            tmp := tmp+incr

        ]

    ]

    "

     1 to:100 by:5 doWithExit:[:index :exit |

        Transcript showCR:index printString.

        index > 50 ifTrue:[

            exit value:nil

        ].

     ]

    "

!

to:stop do:aBlock

    "For each element of the interval from the receiver up to the argument stop,

     evaluate aBlock, passing the number as argument."

    |tmp|

    tmp := self.

    [stop < tmp] whileFalse:[

        aBlock value:tmp.

        tmp := tmp+1

    ]

    "

     1 to:10 do:[:i | Transcript showCR:i].

     1 to:10 by:2 do:[:i | Transcript showCR:i].

     10 to:1 by:-1 do:[:i | Transcript showCR:i].

    "

!

to:stop doWithBreak:aBlock

    "For each element of the interval from the receiver up to the argument stop,

     evaluate aBlock, passing the number as argument.

     Pass a break argument, to allow for premature exit of the loop."

    |tmp break|

    break := [^ self].

    tmp := self.

    [stop < tmp] whileFalse:[

        aBlock value:tmp value:break.

        tmp := tmp+1

    ]

    "

     1 to:10 doWithBreak:[:index :break |

        Transcript showCR:index printString.

        index > 5 ifTrue:[

            break value

        ].

     ]

    "

!

to:stop doWithExit:aBlock

    "For each element of the interval from the receiver up to the argument stop,

     evaluate aBlock, passing the number as argument.

     An exitBlock is passed as second argument, which allows for the loop to be terminated early."

    |exit tmp|

    exit := [:exitValue | ^exitValue].

    tmp := self.

    [stop < tmp] whileFalse:[

        aBlock value:tmp value:exit.

        tmp := tmp+1

    ]

    "

     1 to:10 doWithExit:[:index :exit |

        index == 5 ifTrue:[

            exit value:nil

        ].

        Transcript showCR:index.

     ].

    "

! !

!Magnitude methodsFor:'testing'!

between:min and:max

    "return whether the receiver is less than or equal to the argument max

     and greater than or equal to the argument min."

    (self < min) ifTrue:[^ false].

    (max < self) ifTrue:[^ false].

    ^ true

    "

     1.2 between:1 and:2

     (3/2) between:1 and:2

     (3/2) between:0 and:1

    "

!

in:anInterval

    "return whether the receiver is within the interval bounds"

    (self < anInterval start) ifTrue:[^ false].

    (anInterval stop < self)  ifTrue:[^ false].

    ^ true

    "

     1.2 in:(1 to: 2)

     (3/2) in:(1 to: 2)

     (3/2) in:(0 to: 1)

    "

! !

!Magnitude class methodsFor:'documentation'!

version

    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/Magnitude.st,v 1.21 2005-06-27 10:20:44 cg Exp $'

! !