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package net.openhft.koloboke.function;


/**
 * 
 * Represents an operation upon two {@code byte}-valued operands and producing a
 * {@code byte}-valued result.   This is the primitive type specialization of
 * {@link BinaryOperator} for {@code byte}.
 *
 * Unlike {@link ByteByteToByteFunction}, this operator is supposed to accept two homogeneous
 * arguments and produce a result homogeneous to the arguments, e. g. value merging
 * in {@link net.openhft.koloboke.collect.map.ObjByteMap#merge(Object, byte, ByteBinaryOperator)}
 * method.
 *
 * @see BinaryOperator
 * @see ByteUnaryOperator
 * 
 */
@FunctionalInterface

public interface ByteBinaryOperator extends ByteByteToByteFunction
         {

    /**
     * Applies this operator to the given operands.
     *
     * @param left the first operand
     * @param right the second operand
     * @return the operator result
     */
    @Override
    byte applyAsByte(byte left, byte right);
}