Interface Comparable

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Interface Comparable

public interface netscape.util.Comparable
{
    /* Methods
     */
    public abstract int compareTo(Object);
}

Interface implemented by objects to enable sorting algortithms to sort collections of homogenous instances.

Methods

compareTo

  public abstract int compareTo(Object other)

Compares two objects. Returns -1 if "this < other", returns 1 if "this > other", and returns 0 if "this == other". The other object must be the same type as this object, otherwise the ClassCastException is thrown.

Throws: ClassCastException: The other object is not of the same type.

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