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To capture the event-queue simulation recipe, you define step, a RabbitApplication instance method.

Because the Rabbit instance that has the earliest delivery month is always at the front of the rabbits collection, step can obtain that Rabbit instance by sending the removeFirst message, which both removes the Rabbit instance from the collection and makes the Rabbit instance available for assignment to the mother instance variable:

RabbitApplication method definition • instance 
step 
  | mother daughter | 
  mother := rabbits removeFirst. 
  ...