From 0c288cc1952809294c8d70d86b9f41b04878ac2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eduardo Pedroni <ep625@york.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:05:13 +0000
Subject: Majorly refactored, node grid is fully implemented. About to attempt
 active path locking.

---
 src/jcgp/population/MutableElement.java | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/jcgp/population/MutableElement.java')

diff --git a/src/jcgp/population/MutableElement.java b/src/jcgp/population/MutableElement.java
index 114a4ab..12f6bd1 100644
--- a/src/jcgp/population/MutableElement.java
+++ b/src/jcgp/population/MutableElement.java
@@ -2,8 +2,16 @@ package jcgp.population;
 
 public interface MutableElement {
 	
-	public void setConnection(Connection newConnection);
-
+	/**
+	 * This method sets the indexed connection to the specified new connection.
+	 * Implementing classes may choose to ignore the given index (such as in the
+	 * case of outputs, which only have one connection).
+	 * 
+	 * @param index
+	 * @param newConnection
+	 */
+	public void setConnection(int index, Connection newConnection);
+	
 	/**
 	 * This method returns true if and only if:</br>
 	 * 	- the elements being compared are not the same instance;</br>
@@ -15,7 +23,8 @@ public interface MutableElement {
 	 * The relationship computed by this method is:</br>
 	 *  - symmetric: a.copyOf(b) == b.copyOf(a);</br>
 	 *  - not reflexive: a.copyOf(a) returns false;</br>
-	 *  - not transitive: if a.copyOf(b) is true and b.copyOf(c) is true, a.copyOf(c) is not necessarily true;</br>
+	 *  - not transitive: if a.copyOf(b) is true and b.copyOf(c) is true, a.copyOf(c) is
+	 *    not necessarily true since it is possible that a == c.</br>
 	 * 
 	 * @param m
 	 * @return
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