indexing
	description:
		"Abstraction for objects that may be parented."
	status: "See notice at end of class"
	keywords: "parentable, containable, child"
	date: "$Date$"
	revision: "$Revision$"
	
deferred class 
	EV_CONTAINABLE

inherit
	EV_ANY
	
feature -- Status report

	parent: EV_ANY is
			-- The parent that `Current' is contained within, if any.
		require
			not_destroyed: not is_destroyed
		deferred
		end

end -- class EV_CONTAINABLE

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