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package il.ac.bgu.cs.bp.bpjs.eventsets;
import il.ac.bgu.cs.bp.bpjs.events.BEvent;
/**
* A mathematical set of events - a predicate for testing whether an
* event is a member of a set or not. This allows for symbolic sets, such as
* "all events" or "events of class X".
*
* A subset of this class that has an internal list of events (a set in its
* Collection Framework semantics), is {@link ExplicitEventSet}.
*
* @author michael
*/
public interface EventSet extends java.io.Serializable {
/**
* Implementation of the set membership function.
*
* @param event A candidate object to be tested for matching the criteria of the set.
* @return {@code true} if the object is a member of this set.
*/
boolean contains(BEvent event);
}