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#endregion

using System.Collections.Generic;
using HeuristicLab.Common;
using HeuristicLab.Encodings.SymbolicExpressionTreeEncoding;
using HeuristicLab.Persistence.Default.CompositeSerializers.Storable;

namespace HeuristicLab.Problems.GeneticProgramming.Robocode {
  [StorableClass]
  // a symbol that can represent any user-defined fragment of code
  public sealed class CodeSymbol : Symbol {
    public override int MinimumArity { get { return 1; } }
    public override int MaximumArity { get { return 10; } }

    public string Prefix { get; set; }
    public string Suffix { get; set; }

    public override bool CanChangeName { get { return false; } } // cannot change, otherwise we cannot detect these symbols in the interpreter
    public override bool CanChangeDescription { get { return false; } }

    [StorableConstructor]
    private CodeSymbol(bool deserializing) : base(deserializing) { }
    private CodeSymbol(CodeSymbol original, Cloner cloner)
      : base(original, cloner) {
      Prefix = original.Prefix;
      Suffix = original.Suffix;
    }
    public CodeSymbol()
      : base("CodeSymbol", "The CodeSymbol symbol can represent any user-defined fragment of code.") {
      Prefix = string.Empty;
      Suffix = string.Empty;
    }

    public override IDeepCloneable Clone(Cloner cloner) {
      return new CodeSymbol(this, cloner);
    }
  }
}