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/**
 *  Copyright (c) 2010-2012, The StaccatoCommons Team
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; version 3 of the License.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
 */

package net.sf.staccatocommons.defs;


/**
 * {@link Applicable}s are transformations that take one argument and have a
 * return value, by implementing an {@link #apply(Object)} method.
 * 
 * @author flbulgarelli
 * 
 * @param 
 *          argument type
 * @param 
 *          return type
 * @see Applicative Recomendations for implementing
 */
@Applicative
public interface Applicable {

  /**
   * Performs a transformation on the given element, and returns its result.
   * 
   * @param arg
   *          the transformation
   * @return the transformation result
   */
  R apply(T arg);

}




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