physis.core.virtualmachine
Interface CodeTape

All Known Subinterfaces:

GeneticCodeTape

public interface CodeTape

Simply represents a codetape which has a size (number of contained instructions, length) and one instruction(code) can be retrieved via giving its position.
It can be viewed as an array of short-s.

Method Summary

int	getSize() Returns the number of instructions on the tape.
short	read(int position) Returns the instruction on a given position of the tape.
void	write(int position, short value) Sets the content of the tape on the specified position.

Method Detail

read

public short read(int position)

Returns the instruction on a given position of the tape. ALWAYS RETURNS SOME VALUE! It should handle the exceptions (index out of bounds...)

write

public void write(int position,
                  short value)

Sets the content of the tape on the specified position. ALWAYS DOES SOMETHING! There shouldn't be any unhandled error situation!

getSize

public int getSize()

Returns the number of instructions on the tape. This equals to the length.