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 */

package org.pentaho.reporting.libraries.formula.operators;

/**
 * Creation-Date: 31.10.2006, 16:34:11
 *
 * @author Thomas Morgner
 */
public class LesserOperator extends AbstractCompareOperator
{
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 4305611883854102139L;

  public LesserOperator()
  {
  }

  protected boolean evaluate(final int compareResult)
  {
    return compareResult < 0;
  }

  public int getLevel()
  {
    return 400;
  }

  public boolean isLeftOperation()
  {
    return true;
  }

  /**
   * Defines, whether the operation is associative. For associative operations,
   * the evaluation order does not matter, if the operation appears more than
   * once in an expression, and therefore we can optimize them a lot better than
   * non-associative operations (ie. merge constant parts and precompute them
   * once).
   *
   * @return true, if the operation is associative, false otherwise
   */
  public boolean isAssociative()
  {
    return false;
  }

  /**
   * returns the string representation of this operator.
   *
   * @return string
   */
  public String toString()
  {
    return "<";
  }
}
