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    IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
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 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2008 IBM Corporation and others.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jdt.core.eval;

A global variable declared in an evaluation context.
IEvaluationContext.newVariable can be used to obtain an instance.

See Also:
newVariable.newVariable(String, String, String)
@noimplement
This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients./**
 * A global variable declared in an evaluation context.
 * <p><code>IEvaluationContext.newVariable</code> can be used to obtain an instance.
 * </p>
 *
 * @see IEvaluationContext#newVariable(String, String, String)
 * @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
 */
public interface IGlobalVariable {
Returns the initializer of this global variable.
The syntax for an initializer corresponds to VariableInitializer (JLS2 8.3).
Returns:
the initializer expression, or null if this global does
   not have an initializer/**
 * Returns the initializer of this global variable.
 * The syntax for an initializer corresponds to VariableInitializer (JLS2 8.3).
 *
 * @return the initializer expression, or <code>null</code> if this global does
 *    not have an initializer
 */
public String getInitializer();
Returns the name of this global variable.
Returns:
the name of the global variable/**
 * Returns the name of this global variable.
 *
 * @return the name of the global variable
 */
public String getName();
Returns the fully qualified name of the type of this global
variable, or its simple representation if it is a primitive type
(int, boolean, etc.).

The syntax for a type name corresponds to Type in Field Declaration (JLS2 8.3).

Returns:
the type name/**
 * Returns the fully qualified name of the type of this global
 * variable, or its simple representation if it is a primitive type
 * (<code>int</code>, <code>boolean</code>, etc.).
 * <p>
 * The syntax for a type name corresponds to Type in Field Declaration (JLS2 8.3).
 * </p>
 * @return the type name
 */
public String getTypeName();
}