/**
* Return whether a variable with this type declaration can be assigned a value with the specified
* type declaration. For example: Object foo = new String(); // this is valid String foo = new
* Object(); // this is invalid See "The Java Language Specification" 5.1.4
*
* @see java.lang.Class#isAssignableFrom(java.lang.Class)
*/
boolean isAssignableFrom(MWTypeDeclaration other) {
return this.isAssignableFrom(other.getType(), other.getDimensionality());
}
boolean mightBeAssignableTo(MWTypeDeclaration other) {
return this.mightBeAssignableTo(other.getType(), other.getDimensionality());
}
boolean matches(MWTypeDeclaration other) {
return (this.dimensionality == other.getDimensionality())
&& (this.getType() == other.getType());
}