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 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 * Port to the D programming language:
 *     Frank Benoit <benoit@tionex.de>
 *******************************************************************************/
module dwtx.jface.text.rules.IRule;

import dwtx.jface.text.rules.FastPartitioner; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.ITokenScanner; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.Token; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.RuleBasedScanner; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.EndOfLineRule; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.WordRule; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.WhitespaceRule; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.WordPatternRule; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.IPredicateRule; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.DefaultPartitioner; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.NumberRule; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.SingleLineRule; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.PatternRule; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.RuleBasedDamagerRepairer; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.ICharacterScanner; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.DefaultDamagerRepairer; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.IToken; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.IPartitionTokenScanner; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.MultiLineRule; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.RuleBasedPartitioner; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.RuleBasedPartitionScanner; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.BufferedRuleBasedScanner; // packageimport
import dwtx.jface.text.rules.IWhitespaceDetector; // packageimport


import dwt.dwthelper.utils;


/**
 * Defines the interface for a rule used in the
 * scanning of text for the purpose of document
 * partitioning or text styling.
 *
 * @see ICharacterScanner
 */
public interface IRule {

    /**
     * Evaluates the rule by examining the characters available from
     * the provided character scanner. The token returned by this rule
     * returns <code>true</code> when calling <code>isUndefined</code>,
     * if the text that the rule investigated does not match the rule's requirements
     *
     * @param scanner the character scanner to be used by this rule
     * @return the token computed by the rule
     */
    IToken evaluate(ICharacterScanner scanner);
}