An updated PriorityCustomer class is provided for you. You must use that class,

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An updated PriorityCustomer class is provided for you. You must use that class, without alternations, for the creation of your PriorityCustomer objects. You must analyze the class and use the provided methods to achieve the desired functionality of the program. You will also need to create two additional classes. The first will be a PriorityQueue class that will represent the data structure for holding your Customer objects. In your PriorityQueue class, you will create the actual heap that will act as the priority queue. You must use an array representation of a heap. No ArrayLists or linked structures! The second class you will need to create is a driver where your store simulation will take place.

Customers with a priority value higher than other existing customers should be placed in front of them. This is simulated by utilizing a Max Heap to implement your priority queue. The only exception to this is for the customer in the front of the line (the one currently being serviced). If a new customer is added to the line with a higher priority than the front customer, the new customer should not be put in front of the customer being serviced

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In well-designed object-oriented systems that encapsulate the internal parts of objects, only two functions copy objects: the aptly named copy constructor and copy assignment operator. We'll call these the copying functions. Item 5 observes that compilers will generate the copying functions, if needed, and it explains that the compiler-generated versions do precisely what you'd expect: they copy all the data of the object being copied.

When you declare your own copying functions, you are indicating to compilers that there is something about the default implementations you don't like. Compilers seem to take offense at this, and they retaliate in a curious fashion: they don't tell you when your implementations are almost certainly wrong.

Consider a class representing customers, where the copying functions have been manually written so that calls to them are logged:

Everything here looks fine, and in fact everything is fine

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