de.caff.generics.function

Interface VarBooleanOperator

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.

@FunctionalInterface
public interface VarBooleanOperator

Primitive boolean operator with a variable number of arguments.

Although this basically works for a variable boolean array via the apply(boolean...) method implementors have to implement the method apply(BooleanIndexable) with a BooleanIndexable argument. This is done to make this class generally more useful without the need to copy arrays.

Since:

November 03, 2020

Author:

Rammi

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
default boolean	apply(boolean... values) Apply this operator.
boolean	apply(BooleanIndexable values) Apply this operator.
static VarBooleanOperator	fromBinary(BooleanOperator2 binaryOp, boolean startValue) Create an variable args operator from applying a binary operator over and over.

Method Detail

apply

default boolean apply(boolean... values)

Apply this operator. This default method forwards execution to apply(BooleanIndexable).

Parameters:

values - arguments on which this operator is applied

Returns:

result of applying this operator to all arguments

apply

boolean apply(@NotNull
              BooleanIndexable values)

Apply this operator.

Parameters:

values - indexable providing the values on which this operator operates

Returns:

result of applying this operator to all values

fromBinary

@NotNull
static VarBooleanOperator fromBinary(@NotNull
                                              BooleanOperator2 binaryOp,
                                              boolean startValue)

Create an variable args operator from applying a binary operator over and over.

Eg

 VarBooleanOperator parityOp = VarBooleanOperator.fromBinary((b1, b2) -> b1 ^ b2, false);
 boolean parity = parityOp.apply(true, false, false, true);
 

On each application the currently accumulated result becomes the left (first) argument of binaryOp, while the run value becomes the right (second).

Parameters:

binaryOp - binary operator

startValue - start value (result of operator if no values are given)

Returns:

variable boolean argument operator which applies the given binary operator over and over