net.richarddawkins.watchmaker.morphs

Interface God

public interface God

net.richarddawkins.watchmaker.morphs.God

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; 
 

Original Source File Metadata

It is safe to ignore the "Crashes compiler" based on Richard Dawkins email of Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:54 AM:

I don’t know why I wrote those notes about “crashes compiler”. They all compiled well on System 9. I can only think that I must have made an attempt at resuscitating them after a delay, perhaps on that intermediate category of Macs that could run both System 10 and a version of System 9.

/Source codes ƒ/Monochrome Watchnaker (Crashes compiler): July 26, 1990 to April 10, 1996

 Size    Modification Time   Name      Notes
 28226   1994-12-12 01:06:00 ../../Biomorphs
 

Author:

alan

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Morph	getAdam()
God	getNextGod()
God	getPrevGod()
void	setAdam(Morph adam)
void	setNextGod(God nextGod)
void	setPrevGod(God prevGod)

Method Detail

getNextGod

God getNextGod()

setNextGod

void setNextGod(God nextGod)

getPrevGod

God getPrevGod()

setPrevGod

void setPrevGod(God prevGod)

getAdam

Morph getAdam()

setAdam

void setAdam(Morph adam)