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package com.ericsson.otp.erlang;

/**
 * Provides a Java representation of Erlang booleans, which are special cases of
 * atoms with values 'true' and 'false'.
 */
public class OtpErlangBoolean extends OtpErlangAtom {
    // don't change this!
    static final long serialVersionUID = 1087178844844988393L;

    /**
     * Create a boolean from the given value
     *
     * @param t
     *            the boolean value to represent as an atom.
     */
    public OtpErlangBoolean(final boolean t) {
        super(t);
    }

    /**
     * Create a boolean from a stream containing an atom encoded in Erlang
     * external format. The value of the boolean will be true if the atom
     * represented by the stream is "true" without regard to case. For other
     * atom values, the boolean will have the value false.
     *
     * @exception OtpErlangDecodeException
     *                if the buffer does not contain a valid external
     *                representation of an Erlang atom.
     */
    public OtpErlangBoolean(final OtpInputStream buf)
            throws OtpErlangDecodeException {
        super(buf);
    }
}
