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package com.analog.lyric.dimple.model.variables;

import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.Nullable;

import com.analog.lyric.dimple.model.values.Value;

/**
 * Simple interface for mapping variables to values.
 * @since 0.08
 * @author Christopher Barber
 */
public interface IVariableToValue
{
	// Note: do not add more methods to this interface unless they have
	// default values (which requires Java 8) so that lambda expressions can
	// be used in place of this interface.
	
	/**
	 * Returns object containing value for given variable, if any.
	 * @since 0.08
	 */
	public @Nullable Value varToValue(Variable var);
}