net.richarddawkins.watchmaker.deities

Class God

java.lang.Object

net.richarddawkins.watchmaker.deities.God

public class God
extends java.lang.Object

Gods can be arranged as nodes in a double linked list, that is to say, they can hold references to an ordered pair of other Gods, called the 'next' God and 'previous' God.

Gods were first implemented by Richard Dawkins in the original Pascal source code for Blind Watchmaker. His definition, in Pascal, is this (GodPtr and GodHandle, which are "pointer types", necessary in Pascal to handle varying numbers of objects at runtime, a number unknown until the program actually runs.)

 GodPtr = ^God;
 GodHandle = ^GodPtr;
 God = RECORD
     Adam: FullHandle;
     PreviousGod, NextGod: GodHandle;
 END; 
 

Author:

alan

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
Morph	adam The God's "Adam", the single morph to which it points.
God	nextGod The next God to this one.
God	prevGod The previous God to this one.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
God()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	add(God nextGod)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

nextGod

public God nextGod

The next God to this one.

prevGod

public God prevGod

The previous God to this one.

adam

public Morph adam

The God's "Adam", the single morph to which it points.

Constructor Detail

God

public God()

Method Detail

add

public void add(God nextGod)