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* Copyright (c) 2014 Willink Transformations and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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*
* Contributors:
* E.D.Willink - Initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.values;
import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNull;
public interface ComparableValue<T> extends Value, OCLValue, Comparable<T>
{
/**
* Return -left.compareTo(this).
* <p>
* This is an internal method used to give righthand argument an opportunity to coerce its tyope to suit the lefthand. It is invoked
* when a direct compareTo is unable to compare left with this. Derived implementations must not invoke comoareTo in order to avoid
* an infinite commutation.
*/
int commutatedCompareTo(@NonNull ComparableValue<?> left);
}