From 692ad415024ed5fa45077dfe9210dff59e678ee9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Your Name <you@example.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:19:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Use implements instead of extends

---
 TODO.md                 |  2 +-
 lib/formula_models.dart | 16 +++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index f67a06e..e8b971b 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 - [X] Create Formula.toStringLiteral. It is the reverse of Formula.fromSet( Formula.fromArrayStringLiteral(string)[0] )
 - [X] Create UnitSpec.toStringLiteral, like Formula.toStringLiteral
 - [X] Make Formula and UnitSpec subclasses of FormulaElement. Change return type of functions that return Object to FormulaElement if necessary.
-- [ ] Define toStringLiteral in FormulaElement.
+- [X] Define toStringLiteral in FormulaElement.
 - Database file location:
   - [ ] In linux, the sqlite database file will be located following rules at https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/
   - [ ] In Windows, the sqlite database file will be in %appdata%/Roaming
diff --git a/lib/formula_models.dart b/lib/formula_models.dart
index ede7ca5..af1c692 100644
--- a/lib/formula_models.dart
+++ b/lib/formula_models.dart
@@ -67,9 +67,13 @@ List<FormulaElement> parseCorpusElements(String arrayStringLiteral) {
 typedef Number = double;
 
 /// Abstract base class for formula elements
-abstract class FormulaElement {}
+abstract class FormulaElement {
+  /// Creates a string literal representation of the FormulaElement that can be parsed
+  /// by the D4RT parser to recreate the same FormulaElement object.
+  String toStringLiteral();
+}
 
-class UnitSpec extends FormulaElement {
+class UnitSpec implements FormulaElement {
   final String name;
   final String baseUnit;
   final String symbol;
@@ -136,8 +140,7 @@ class UnitSpec extends FormulaElement {
     return units.toList(growable: false);
   }
 
-  /// Creates a string literal representation of the UnitSpec that can be parsed
-  /// by the D4RT parser to recreate the same UnitSpec object.
+  @override
   String toStringLiteral() {
     final buffer = StringBuffer('{');
     buffer.write('"name": "$name", "symbol": "$symbol"');
@@ -194,8 +197,7 @@ class VariableSpec {
   @override
   int get hashCode => Object.hash(unit, name, values != null ? const DeepCollectionEquality().hash(values!) : 0);
 
-  /// Creates a string literal representation of the VariableSpec that can be parsed
-  /// by the D4RT parser.
+  @override
   String toStringLiteral() {
     final buffer = StringBuffer('{');
     buffer.write('"name": "$name"');
@@ -219,7 +221,7 @@ class VariableSpec {
   }
 }
 
-class Formula extends FormulaElement {
+class Formula implements FormulaElement {
   final String name;
   final String? description;
   final List<VariableSpec> input;