1 package edu.berkeley.sbp;
2 import edu.berkeley.sbp.util.*;
3 import edu.berkeley.sbp.*;
4 import edu.berkeley.sbp.*;
7 import java.lang.reflect.*;
8 import java.lang.ref.*;
10 /** the root superclass for all components of the grammar (terminals, nonterminals, literals, etc) */
11 public abstract class Element {
13 abstract StringBuffer toString(StringBuffer sb);
15 /** if this element always matches exactly one token, return a topology covering exactly those possible tokens, otherwise <tt>null</tt> */
16 Forest epsilonForm() { return null; }