EiffelBase class
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Eiffel Class
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.";
status: "See notice at end of class";
names: dispenser, active;
access: fixed, membership;
contents: generic;
date: "$Date: 2007-03-30 11:10:11 -0800 (Fri, 30 Mar 2007) $";
revision: "$Revision: 95354 $"
deferred class DISPENSER [G]
inherit
ACTIVE [G];
FINITE [G]
feature -- Status report
readable: BOOLEAN is
-- Is there a current item that may be read?
do
Result := notempty
end;
writable: BOOLEAN is
-- Is there a current item that may be modified?
do
Result := notempty
end;
feature -- Element change
append (s: SEQUENCE [G]) is
-- Append a copy of s.
-- (Synonym for fill)
do
fill (s)
end;
extend (v: like item) is
-- Add item v.
-- Was declared in DISPENSER as synonym of extend, force and put.
deferred
end;
force (v: like item) is
-- Add item v.
-- Was declared in DISPENSER as synonym of extend, force and put.
deferred
end;
put (v: like item) is
-- Add item v.
-- Was declared in DISPENSER as synonym of extend, force and put.
deferred
end;
invariant
readable_definition: readable = notempty;
writable_definition: writable = notempty;
end -- class DISPENSER
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