"======================================================================
|
|   LookupKey Method Definitions
|
|   $Revision: 1.7.5$
|   $Date: 2000/05/28 16:56:52$
|   $Author: pb$
|
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Magnitude subclass: #LookupKey
	  instanceVariableNames: 'key value'
	  classVariableNames: ''
	  poolDictionaries: ''
	  category: 'Language-Data types'
!

LookupKey comment: 
'I represent a key for looking up entries in a data structure. Subclasses
of me, such as Association, typically represent dictionary entries.'!



!LookupKey class methodsFor: 'basic'!

key: aKey
    "Answer a new instance of the receiver with the given key and value"
    ^self new key: aKey
! !



!LookupKey methodsFor: 'accessing'!

key: aKey
    "Set the receiver's key to aKey"
    key := aKey.
!

key
    "Answer the receiver's key"
    ^key
! !



!LookupKey methodsFor: 'testing'!

< aLookupKey
    "Answer whether the receiver's key is less than aLookupKey's"
    ^self key < aLookupKey key
!

= aLookupKey
    "Answer whether the receiver's key and value are the same as
     aLookupKey's, or false if aLookupKey is not an instance of
     the receiver"
    ^self class == aLookupKey class and: [ self key = aLookupKey key ]
!

hash
    "Answer an hash value for the receiver"
    ^key hash
! !




!LookupKey methodsFor: 'printing'!

printOn: aStream
    "Put on aStream a representation of the receiver"
    self key printOn: aStream.
! !



!LookupKey methodsFor: 'storing'!

storeOn: aStream
    "Put on aStream some Smalltalk code compiling to the receiver"
    aStream nextPutAll: '(LookupKey key: '.
    self key storeOn: aStream.
    aStream nextPut: $)
! !

