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	description: "[
		``Active'' data structures, which at every stage have
		a possibly undefined ``current item''.
		Basic access and modification operations apply to the current item.
	]"
	status: "See notice at end of class"
	names: active, access
	access: membership
	contents: generic
	date: "$Date$"
	revision: "$Revision$"

deferred class interface
	ACTIVE [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 is_empty

	item: G
			-- Current item
		require
			readable: readable

feature -- Measurement

	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)

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

	is_empty: BOOLEAN
			-- Is there no element?
			-- (from CONTAINER)

	is_inserted (v: G): BOOLEAN
			-- Has v been inserted by the most recent insertion?
			-- (By default, the value returned is equivalent to calling
			-- `has (v)'. However, descendants might be able to provide more
			-- efficient implementations.)
			-- (from COLLECTION)

	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

	extend (v: G)
			-- Add a new occurrence of v.
			-- (from BAG)
		require -- from COLLECTION
			extendible: extendible
		ensure -- from COLLECTION
			item_inserted: is_inserted (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

	put (v: G)
			-- Ensure that structure includes v.
			-- Was declared in COLLECTION as synonym of extend.
			-- (from COLLECTION)
		require -- from COLLECTION
			extendible: extendible
		ensure -- from COLLECTION
			item_inserted: is_inserted (v)

	replace (v: G)
			-- Replace current item by v.
		require
			writable: writable
		ensure
			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.
		require
			prunable: prunable
			writable: writable

	wipe_out
			-- Remove all items.
			-- (from COLLECTION)
		require -- from COLLECTION
			prunable
		ensure -- from COLLECTION
			wiped_out: is_empty

feature -- Conversion

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

invariant

	writable_constraint: writable implies readable
	empty_constraint: is_empty implies (not readable) and (not writable)
		-- from ANY
	reflexive_equality: standard_is_equal (Current)
	reflexive_conformance: conforms_to (Current)

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	library: "[
			EiffelBase: Library of reusable components for Eiffel.
	]"
	status: "[
			Copyright 1986-2001 Interactive Software Engineering (ISE).
			For ISE customers the original versions are an ISE product
			covered by the ISE Eiffel license and support agreements.
	]"
	license: "[
			EiffelBase may now be used by anyone as FREE SOFTWARE to
			develop any product, public-domain or commercial, without
			payment to ISE, under the terms of the ISE Free Eiffel Library
			License (IFELL) at http://eiffel.com/products/base/license.html.
	]"
	source: "[
			Interactive Software Engineering Inc.
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			Telephone 805-685-1006, Fax 805-685-6869
			Electronic mail <info@eiffel.com>
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	]"
	info: "[
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	]"

end -- class ACTIVE