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diff --git a/src/edu/berkeley/sbp/Element.java b/src/edu/berkeley/sbp/Element.java
index 7e140f9..0d7fb84 100644
--- a/src/edu/berkeley/sbp/Element.java
+++ b/src/edu/berkeley/sbp/Element.java
@@ -10,14 +10,9 @@ import java.lang.ref.*;
 /** the root superclass for all components of the grammar (terminals, nonterminals, literals, etc) */
 public abstract class Element {
 
-    abstract Topology toAtom();
-    public Topology noFollow() { return null; }
-    Forest epsilonForm() { throw new Error("no epsilon form: " + this); }
-    final boolean possiblyEpsilon(Walk.Cache cache)   {
-        Boolean ret = cache==null ? null : cache.possiblyEpsilon.get(this);
-        if (ret != null) return ret.booleanValue();
-        ret = new Walk.PossiblyEpsilon().walk(this) ? Boolean.TRUE : Boolean.FALSE;
-        if (cache != null) cache.possiblyEpsilon.put(this, ret);
-        return ret;
-    }
+    abstract StringBuffer toString(StringBuffer sb);
+
+    /** returns the Forest resulting from matching this element against the empty string */
+    Forest epsilonForm() { throw new Error("element " + this + " has no epsilon form"); }
+
 }