/**
* Utility routine that will create a string representation of a given
* Sentence and place it inside brackets if it is a complex sentence that
* has lower precedence than this complex sentence.<br>
* <br>
* Note: this is a form of pretty printing, whereby we only add brackets in
* the concrete syntax representation as needed to ensure it can be parsed
* back again into an equivalent abstract syntax representation used here.
*
* @param parentConnective
* the connective of the parent sentence.
* @param childSentence
* a simpler child sentence.
* @return a string representation of the Sentence, bracketed if the parent
* based on its connective has higher precedence.
*/
public string bracketSentenceIfNecessary(Connective parentConnective, Sentence childSentence)
{
string result = null;
if (childSentence is ComplexSentence)
{
ComplexSentence cs = (ComplexSentence)childSentence;
if (cs.getConnective().getPrecedence() < parentConnective
.getPrecedence())
{
result = "(" + childSentence + ")";
}
}
if (result == null)
{
result = childSentence.ToString();
}
return(result);
}
public override bool Equals(object o)
{
if (this == o)
{
return(true);
}
if ((o == null) || (this.GetType() != o.GetType()))
{
return(false);
}
bool result = false;
ComplexSentence other = (ComplexSentence)o;
if (other.GetHashCode() == this.GetHashCode())
{
if (other.getConnective().Equals(this.getConnective()) &&
other.getNumberSimplerSentences() == this
.getNumberSimplerSentences())
{
// connective and # of simpler sentences match
// assume match and then test each simpler sentence
result = true;
for (int i = 0; i < this.getNumberSimplerSentences(); ++i)
{
if (!other.getSimplerSentence(i).Equals(
this.getSimplerSentence(i)))
{
result = false;
break;
}
}
}
}
return(result);
}