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 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 
 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package net.sourceforge.phpdt.internal.compiler.impl;

public class StringConstant extends Constant {
	public String value;

	public StringConstant(String value) {
		this.value = value;
	}

	public boolean compileTimeEqual(StringConstant right) {
		// String are intermed in the compiler==>thus if two string constant
		// get to be compared, it is an equal on the vale which is done
		if (this.value == null) {
			return right.value == null;
		}
		return this.value.equals(right.value);
	}

	public String stringValue() {
		// spec 15.17.11

		// the next line do not go into the toString() send....!
		return value;

		/*
		 * String s = value.toString() ; if (s == null) return "null"; else
		 * return s;
		 */

	}

	public String toString() {

		return "(String)\"" + value + "\"";} //$NON-NLS-2$ //$NON-NLS-1$

	public int typeID() {
		return T_String;
	}
}