/* Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010 by the Oxford University Computing Laboratory
This file is part of HermiT.
HermiT is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
HermiT 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with HermiT. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package org.semanticweb.HermiT.model;
import org.semanticweb.HermiT.Prefixes;
/**
* Represents a variable.
*/
public class Variable extends Term {
private static final long serialVersionUID=-1943457771102512887L;
protected final String m_name;
protected Variable(String name) {
m_name=name;
}
public String getName() {
return m_name;
}
public String toString() {
return toString(Prefixes.STANDARD_PREFIXES);
}
public String toString(Prefixes prefixes) {
return m_name;
}
protected Object readResolve() {
return s_interningManager.intern(this);
}
protected static InterningManager<Variable> s_interningManager=new InterningManager<Variable>() {
protected boolean equal(Variable object1,Variable object2) {
return object1.m_name.equals(object2.m_name);
}
protected int getHashCode(Variable object) {
return object.m_name.hashCode();
}
};
public static Variable create(String name) {
return s_interningManager.intern(new Variable(name));
}
}