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public interface Comparable
This interface should be implemented by all classes which wish to define a natural ordering of their instances. The ordering rule must be transitive and invertible (i.e. the sign of the result of x.compareTo(y) must equal the negation of the sign of the result of y.compareTo(x) for all x and y).
In addition, it is desirable (but not required) that when the result of x.compareTo(y) is zero (and only then) the result of x.equals(y) should be true.
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int |
compareTo(java.lang.Object another)
Answers an integer indicating the relative positions of the receiver and the argument in the natural order of elements of the receiver's class. |
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int compareTo(java.lang.Object another)
another
- Object an object to compare the receiver to
java.lang.ClassCastException
- if the argument can not be converted into something comparable with the receiver.
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