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/* NSC -- new Scala compiler
* Copyright 2007-2013 LAMP/EPFL
* @author Manohar Jonnalagedda
*/
package scala.tools.nsc
package doc
package model
import scala.collection._
/** A type. Note that types and templates contain the same information only for the simplest types. For example, a type
* defines how a template's type parameters are instantiated (as in `List[Cow]`), what the template's prefix is
* (as in `johnsFarm.Cow`), and supports compound or structural types. */
abstract class TypeEntity {
/** The human-readable representation of this type. */
def name: String
/** Maps which parts of this type's name reference entities. The map is indexed by the position of the first
* character that reference some entity, and contains the entity and the position of the last referenced
* character. The referenced character ranges do not to overlap or nest. The map is sorted by position. */
def refEntity: SortedMap[Int, (LinkTo, Int)]
/** The human-readable representation of this type. */
override def toString = name
}