indexing
	description: "Dispensers: containers for which clients have no say as to what item they can access at a given time. Examples include stacks and queues."
	names: dispenser, active
	access: fixed, membership
	contents: generic

deferred class interface
	DISPENSER [G]

feature -- Access

	has (v: G): BOOLEAN
			-- Does structure include v?
			-- (Reference or object equality,
			-- based on object_comparison.)
			-- (from CONTAINER)
		ensure -- from CONTAINER
			not_found_in_empty: Result implies not empty
		ensure -- from CONTAINER
			not_found_in_empty: Result implies not empty

	item: G
			-- Current item
			-- (from ACTIVE)
		require -- from ACTIVE
			readable: readable
	
feature -- Measurement

	count: INTEGER
			-- Number of items
			-- (from FINITE)

	occurrences (v: G): INTEGER
			-- Number of times v appears in structure
			-- (Reference or object equality,
			-- based on object_comparison.)
			-- (from BAG)
		ensure -- from BAG
			non_negative_occurrences: Result >= 0
	
feature -- Status report

	changeable_comparison_criterion: BOOLEAN
			-- May object_comparison be changed?
			-- (Answer: yes by default.)
			-- (from CONTAINER)

	empty: BOOLEAN
			-- Is structure empty?
			-- (from FINITE)

	extendible: BOOLEAN
			-- May new items be added?
			-- (from COLLECTION)

	full: BOOLEAN
			-- Is structure filled to capacity?
			-- (from BOX)

	object_comparison: BOOLEAN
			-- Must search operations use equal rather than =
			-- for comparing references? (Default: no, use =.)
			-- (from CONTAINER)

	prunable: BOOLEAN
			-- May items be removed?
			-- (from COLLECTION)

	readable: BOOLEAN
			-- Is there a current item that may be read?

	writable: BOOLEAN
			-- Is there a current item that may be modified?
	
feature -- Status setting

	compare_objects
			-- Ensure that future search operations will use equal
			-- rather than = for comparing references.
			-- (from CONTAINER)
		require -- from CONTAINER
			changeable_comparison_criterion
		ensure -- from CONTAINER
			object_comparison

	compare_references
			-- Ensure that future search operations will use =
			-- rather than equal for comparing references.
			-- (from CONTAINER)
		require -- from CONTAINER
			changeable_comparison_criterion
		ensure -- from CONTAINER
			reference_comparison: not object_comparison
	
feature -- Element change

	append (s: SEQUENCE [G])
			-- Append a copy of s.
			-- (Synonym for fill)

	extend (v: like item)
			-- Add item v.
			-- Was declared in DISPENSER as synonym of extend, force and put.
		require -- from COLLECTION
			extendible: extendible
		ensure -- from COLLECTION
			item_inserted: has (v)
		ensure then -- from BAG
			one_more_occurrence: occurrences (v) = old (occurrences (v)) + 1

	fill (other: CONTAINER [G])
			-- Fill with as many items of other as possible.
			-- The representations of other and current structure
			-- need not be the same.
			-- (from COLLECTION)
		require -- from COLLECTION
			other_not_void: other /= void;
			extendible

	force (v: like item)
			-- Add item v.
			-- Was declared in DISPENSER as synonym of extend, force and put.

	put (v: like item)
			-- Add item v.
			-- Was declared in DISPENSER as synonym of extend, force and put.
		require -- from COLLECTION
			extendible: extendible
		ensure -- from COLLECTION
			item_inserted: has (v)

	replace (v: G)
			-- Replace current item by v.
			-- (from ACTIVE)
		require -- from ACTIVE
			writable: writable
		ensure -- from ACTIVE
			item_replaced: item = v
	
feature -- Removal

	prune (v: G)
			-- Remove one occurrence of v if any.
			-- (Reference or object equality,
			-- based on object_comparison.)
			-- (from COLLECTION)
		require -- from COLLECTION
			prunable: prunable

	prune_all (v: G)
			-- Remove all occurrences of v.
			-- (Reference or object equality,
			-- based on object_comparison.)
			-- (from COLLECTION)
		require -- from COLLECTION
			prunable
		ensure -- from COLLECTION
			no_more_occurrences: not has (v)

	remove
			-- Remove current item.
			-- (from ACTIVE)
		require -- from ACTIVE
			prunable: prunable;
			writable: writable

	wipe_out
			-- Remove all items.
			-- (from COLLECTION)
		require -- from COLLECTION
			prunable
		ensure -- from COLLECTION
			wiped_out: empty
	
feature -- Conversion

	linear_representation: LINEAR [G]
			-- Representation as a linear structure
			-- (from CONTAINER)
	
invariant

		-- from GENERAL
	reflexive_equality: standard_is_equal (Current);
	reflexive_conformance: conforms_to (Current);
	readable_definition: readable = not empty;
	writable_definition: writable = not empty;
		-- from ACTIVE
	writable_constraint: writable implies readable;
	empty_constraint: empty implies (not readable) and (not writable);
		-- from FINITE
	empty_definition: empty = (count = 0);
	non_negative_count: count >= 0;

end -- class DISPENSER