property/countable.fz
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# Source code of Fuzion standard library feature countable
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# countable -- feature for values that contain sub-elements that are countable
#
public countable is
# count implements a way to count the number of elements in the object.
#
public count i32
pre
analysis: finite != trit.no # in practice, we do not always have this information
=> abstract
# this feature tries to determine whether the number of elements in the object
# is finite or countably infinite.
#
public finite trit => abstract