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Library providing immutable/persistent collection classes for Java. While collections are immutable they provide methods for adding and removing values by creating new modified copies of themselves. Each copy shares almost all of its structure with other copies to minimize memory consumption.

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package org.javimmutable.collections;

/**
 * Interface for objects that store values in LIFO form.  Elements are always added
 * at the front of the list so elements are traversed in reverse order.
 *
 * @param 
 */
public interface JImmutableStack
        extends Insertable,
                Sequence,
                Cursorable,
                Iterable
{
    boolean isEmpty();

    /**
     * Accesses the first value in the List.
     *
     * @return
     */
    T getHead();

    /**
     * Accesses the rest of the List (i.e. the entry after the head entry).
     *
     * @return
     */
    JImmutableStack getTail();

    /**
     * Returns a new list containing the value before the element returned by getHead().
     *
     * @param value
     * @return
     */
    JImmutableStack insert(T value);

    /**
     * Returns a list without the element returned by getHead().
     *
     * @return
     */
    JImmutableStack remove();
}