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package difflib.myers;
/**
* Title:
* Description:
* Copyright: Copyright (c) 2002
* Company:
* @author not attributable
* @version 1.0
*/
/**
* A diffnode in a diffpath.
*
* A DiffNode and its previous node mark a delta between
* two input sequences, that is, two differing subsequences
* between (possibly zero length) matching sequences.
*
* {@link DiffNode DiffNodes} and {@link Snake Snakes} allow for compression
* of diffpaths, as each snake is represented by a single {@link Snake Snake}
* node and each contiguous series of insertions and deletions is represented
* by a single {@link DiffNode DiffNodes}.
*
* @version $Revision: 60 $ $Date: 2003-05-10 21:56:10 +0300 (Суб, 10 Май 2003) $
* @author Juanco Anez
*
*/
public final class DiffNode extends PathNode {
/**
* Constructs a DiffNode.
*
* DiffNodes are compressed. That means that
* the path pointed to by the prev parameter
* will be followed using {@link PathNode#previousSnake}
* until a non-diff node is found.
*
* @param the position in the original sequence
* @param the position in the revised sequence
* @param prev the previous node in the path.
*/
public DiffNode(int i, int j, PathNode prev) {
super(i, j, (prev == null ? null : prev.previousSnake()));
}
/**
* {@inheritDoc}
* @return false, always
*/
public boolean isSnake() {
return false;
}
}