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diff --git a/src/edu/berkeley/sbp/Element.java b/src/edu/berkeley/sbp/Element.java
index 33bfd8d..35678ab 100644
--- a/src/edu/berkeley/sbp/Element.java
+++ b/src/edu/berkeley/sbp/Element.java
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+// Copyright 2006 all rights reserved; see LICENSE file for BSD-style license
+
package edu.berkeley.sbp;
import edu.berkeley.sbp.util.*;
import edu.berkeley.sbp.*;
@@ -7,12 +9,16 @@ import java.util.*;
import java.lang.reflect.*;
import java.lang.ref.*;
-/** the root superclass for all components of the grammar (terminals, nonterminals, literals, etc) */
-public abstract class Element {
+/** the root superclass for all components of the grammar (terminals, nonterminals, literals, etc) */
+public abstract class Element implements SequenceOrElement {
+
+ /** sorry, you can't make up new, custom elements */
+ Element() { }
+ /** a more verbose version of toString() which should show the entire grammar */
abstract StringBuffer toString(StringBuffer sb);
- /** if this element always matches exactly one token, return a topology covering exactly those possible tokens, otherwise null */
- Forest epsilonForm() { return null; }
+ /** returns the Forest resulting from matching this element against the empty string */
+ Forest> epsilonForm(Input.Region loc) { throw new Error("element " + this + " has no epsilon form"); }
}