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#if ! defined (octave_ov_legacy_range_h)
#define octave_ov_legacy_range_h 1

#include "octave-config.h"

#include <cstdlib>

#include <iosfwd>
#include <memory>
#include <string>

#include "mappers.h"
#include "lo-utils.h"
#include "mx-base.h"

#include "error.h"
#include "oct-stream.h"
#include "ov-base.h"
#include "ov-re-mat.h"
#include "ov-typeinfo.h"

class Range;

class octave_value_list;

// Legacy Range values.

// Provide enough of the old octave_range class to allow Range objects
// to be loaded from files.  After loading, they are converted to some
// other type by a call to octave_value::maybe_mutate in
// load_save_system::load_vars so there should no longer be any values
// of this type used by the interpreter.  The action of maybe_mutate is
// performed by octave_legacy_range::try_narrowing_conversion.

class octave_legacy_range : public octave_base_value
{
public:

  octave_legacy_range ();

  octave_legacy_range (const Range& r);

  octave_legacy_range (const octave_legacy_range& r);

  // No assignment.

  octave_legacy_range& operator = (const octave_legacy_range&) = delete;

  ~octave_legacy_range () = default;

  octave_base_value * clone () const
  {
    return new octave_legacy_range (*this);
  }

  // A range is really just a special kind of real matrix object.  In
  // the places where we need to call empty_clone, it makes more sense
  // to create an empty matrix (0x0) instead of an empty range (1x0).
  octave_base_value * empty_clone () const { return new octave_matrix (); }

  type_conv_info numeric_conversion_function () const;

  octave_base_value * try_narrowing_conversion ();

  bool is_defined () const { return true; }

  bool is_legacy_object () const { return true; }

  bool is_constant () const { return true; }

  bool load_ascii (std::istream& is);

  bool load_binary (std::istream& is, bool swap,
                    octave::mach_info::float_format fmt);

  bool load_hdf5 (octave_hdf5_id loc_id, const char *name);

private:

  std::unique_ptr<Range> m_range;

  DECLARE_OV_TYPEID_FUNCTIONS_AND_DATA_API (OCTINTERP_API)
};

#endif
