/*

Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton

This file is part of Octave.

Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
later version.

Octave 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 General Public License
for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

*/

#if !defined (octave_base_value_h)
#define octave_base_value_h 1

#if defined (__GNUG__) && defined (USE_PRAGMA_INTERFACE_IMPLEMENTATION)
#pragma interface
#endif

#include <cstdlib>

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

#include "mx-base.h"
#include "str-vec.h"

#include "error.h"
#include "ov.h"
#include "ov-typeinfo.h"

class Cell;
class Octave_map;
class octave_value_list;

class tree_walker;

// A base value type, so that derived types only have to redefine what
// they need (if they are derived from octave_base_value instead of
// octave_value).

class
octave_base_value : public octave_value
{
public:

  octave_base_value (void)
    : octave_value (octave_xvalue ()) { }

  octave_base_value (const octave_base_value&)
    : octave_value (octave_xvalue ()) { }

  ~octave_base_value (void) { }

  octave_value *clone (void) const { return new octave_base_value (*this); }
  octave_value *empty_clone (void) const { return new octave_base_value (); }

  type_conv_fcn numeric_conversion_function (void) const
    { return static_cast<type_conv_fcn> (0); }

  octave_value *try_narrowing_conversion (void)
    { return static_cast<octave_value *> (0); }

  octave_value subsref (const std::string& type,
			const std::list<octave_value_list>& idx);

  octave_value_list subsref (const std::string& type,
			     const std::list<octave_value_list>& idx,
			     int nargout);

  octave_value do_index_op (const octave_value_list& idx, int resize_ok);

  octave_value do_index_op (const octave_value_list& idx)
    { return do_index_op (idx, 0); }

  octave_value_list
  do_multi_index_op (int nargout, const octave_value_list& idx);

  idx_vector index_vector (void) const;

  octave_value subsasgn (const std::string& type,
			 const std::list<octave_value_list>& idx,
			 const octave_value& rhs);

  int rows (void) const { return -1; }

  int columns (void) const { return -1; }

  int length (void) const { return -1; }

  bool is_defined (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_cell (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_real_scalar (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_real_matrix (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_complex_scalar (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_complex_matrix (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_char_matrix (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_string (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_range (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_map (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_stream (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_cs_list (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_list (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_magic_colon (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_all_va_args (void) const { return false; }

  octave_value all (int = 0) const { return 0.0; }

  octave_value any (int = 0) const { return 0.0; }

  bool is_bool_type (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_real_type (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_complex_type (void) const { return false; }

  // Would be nice to get rid of the next four functions:

  bool is_scalar_type (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_matrix_type (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_numeric_type (void) const { return false; }

  bool valid_as_scalar_index (void) const { return false; }

  bool valid_as_zero_index (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_true (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_empty (void) const
    { return (rows () == 0 || columns () == 0); }

  bool is_zero_by_zero (void) const
    { return (rows () == 0 && columns () == 0); }

  bool is_constant (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_function (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_builtin_function (void) const { return false; }

  bool is_dld_function (void) const { return false; }

  int int_value (bool = false, bool = false) const;

  int nint_value (bool = false) const;

  double double_value (bool = false) const;

  double scalar_value (bool frc_str_conv = false) const
    { return double_value (frc_str_conv); }

  Cell cell_value (void) const;

  Matrix matrix_value (bool = false) const;

  Complex complex_value (bool = false) const;

  ComplexMatrix complex_matrix_value (bool = false) const;

  charMatrix char_matrix_value (bool = false) const;

  string_vector all_strings (void) const;

  std::string string_value (void) const;

  Range range_value (void) const;

  Octave_map map_value (void) const;

  string_vector map_keys (void) const;

  octave_stream stream_value (void) const;

  int stream_number (void) const;

  octave_function *function_value (bool silent);

  octave_value_list list_value (void) const;

  bool bool_value (void) const;

  boolMatrix bool_matrix_value (void) const;

  octave_value convert_to_str (void) const;

  void convert_to_row_or_column_vector (void);

  void print (std::ostream& os, bool pr_as_read_syntax = false) const;

  void print_raw (std::ostream& os, bool pr_as_read_syntax = false) const;

  bool print_name_tag (std::ostream& os, const std::string& name) const;

  void print_info (std::ostream& os, const std::string& prefix) const;

private:

  DECLARE_OV_TYPEID_FUNCTIONS_AND_DATA
};

#endif

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