/*______________________________________________________________________________
 * 
 * org.eidola.kernel.error.SemanticViolation
 * 
 * Part of the Eidola Kernel Reference Implementation
 * See http://eidola.org for oodles of relevant fun!
 * 
 *______________________________________________________________________________
 * 
 * Copyright 2000-2001 Paul Cantrell
 * 
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 *_______________________________________________________________________________
 */

package org.eidola.kernel.error;

import org.eidola.kernel.Container;

/**
	A violation of the semantic restrictions on an element.  This doesn't always
	get thrown as an exception -- violations of lazy rules live in an element's error list
	(see {@link org.eidola.kernel.Element.Compilation#getErrors()}).
	
	@author Paul Cantrell
	@version [Development version]
*/

public class SemanticViolation
	extends Exception
	{
	public SemanticViolation(Container culprit, String s)
		{
		super(s);
		this.culprit = culprit;
		}
	
	/** Returns the culprit element.  This is not necessarily the element
	 *  in whose error list this exception lives; it is the element most
	 *  directly responsible for the error in some potentially larger context.
	 *  For example, if a variable tries to be a public and a private member of
	 *  a class, the variable is the culprit, but the exception will appear in the
	 *  class's error list. */
	
	public Container getCulprit()
		{ return culprit; }
	
	private Container culprit;
	}