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 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 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
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 * Port to the D programming language:
 *     Frank Benoit <benoit@tionex.de>
 *******************************************************************************/
module dwtx.jface.text.rules.IWordDetector;

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.IRule; // 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 by which <code>WordRule</code>
 * determines whether a given character is valid as part
 * of a word in the current context.
 */
public interface IWordDetector {

    /**
     * Returns whether the specified character is
     * valid as the first character in a word.
     *
     * @param c the character to be checked
     * @return <code>true</code> is a valid first character in a word, <code>false</code> otherwise
     */
    bool isWordStart(dchar c);

    /**
     * Returns whether the specified character is
     * valid as a subsequent character in a word.
     *
     * @param c the character to be checked
     * @return <code>true</code> if the character is a valid word part, <code>false</code> otherwise
     */
    bool isWordPart(dchar c);
}