groovy.lang
Interface Range

All Superinterfaces:

Collection, Iterable, List

All Known Implementing Classes:

EmptyRange, IntRange, ObjectRange

public interface Range
extends List

Represents the interface of a Range implementation which includes the from and to values

Version:

$Revision: 641 $

Author:

James Strachan

Method Summary

Comparable	getFrom()
Comparable	getTo()
String	inspect()
boolean	isReverse()

Methods inherited from interface java.util.List

add, add, addAll, addAll, clear, contains, containsAll, equals, get, hashCode, indexOf, isEmpty, iterator, lastIndexOf, listIterator, listIterator, remove, remove, removeAll, retainAll, set, size, subList, toArray, toArray

Method Detail

getFrom

Comparable getFrom()

Returns:

the lower value in the range

getTo

Comparable getTo()

Returns:

the upper value in the range

isReverse

boolean isReverse()

Returns:

true if this is a reverse range, iterating backwards starting from the to value and ending on the from value

inspect

String inspect()

Returns:

the verbose String representation of this Range as would be typed into a console to create the Range instance