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Abstract data type for FIFO queues.
This module provides (double-ended) FIFO queues in an efficient manner.
All functions fail with reason badarg
if arguments are of wrong type, for
example, queue arguments are not queues, indexes are not integers, and list
arguments are not lists. Improper lists cause internal crashes. An index out of
range for a queue also causes a failure with reason badarg
.
Some functions, where noted, fail with reason empty
for an empty queue.
The data representing a queue as used by this module is to be regarded as opaque by other modules. In abstract terms, the representation is a composite type of existing Erlang terms. See note on data types. Any code assuming knowledge of the format is running on thin ice.
All operations have an amortized O(1) running time, except all/2
, any/2
,
delete/2
, delete_r/2
, delete_with/2
, delete_with_r/2
, filter/2
,
filtermap/2
, fold/3
, join/2
, len/1
, member/2
, split/2
that have
O(n). To minimize the size of a queue minimizing the amount of garbage built by
queue operations, the queues do not contain explicit length information, and
that is why len/1
is O(n). If better performance for this
particular operation is essential, it is easy for the caller to keep track of
the length.
Queues are double-ended. The mental picture of a queue is a line of people (items) waiting for their turn. The queue front is the end with the item that has waited the longest. The queue rear is the end an item enters when it starts to wait. If instead using the mental picture of a list, the front is called head and the rear is called tail.
Entering at the front and exiting at the rear are reverse operations on the queue.
This module has three sets of interface functions: the "Original API", the "Extended API", and the "Okasaki API".
The "Original API" and the "Extended API" both use the mental picture of a waiting line of items. Both have reverse operations suffixed "_r".
The "Original API" item removal functions return compound terms with both the removed item and the resulting queue. The "Extended API" contains alternative functions that build less garbage and functions for just inspecting the queue ends. Also the "Okasaki API" functions build less garbage.
The "Okasaki API" is inspired by "Purely Functional Data Structures" by Chris Okasaki. It regards queues as lists. This API is by many regarded as strange and avoidable. For example, many reverse operations have lexically reversed names, some with more readable but perhaps less understandable aliases.
Summary
Original API
Returns true
if Pred(Item)
returns true
for all items Item
in Q
,
otherwise false
.
Returns true
if Pred(Item)
returns true
for at least one item Item
in
Q
, otherwise false
.
Returns a copy of Q1
where the first item matching Item
is deleted, if there
is such an item.
Returns a copy of Q1
where the last item matching Item
is deleted, if there
is such an item.
Returns a copy of Q1
where the first item for which Pred
returns true
is
deleted, if there is such an item.
Returns a copy of Q1
where the last item for which Pred
returns true
is
deleted, if there is such an item.
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of calling Fun(Item)
on all items in
Q1
.
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of calling Fun(Item)
on all items in
Q1
.
Calls Fun(Item, AccIn)
on successive items Item
of Queue
, starting with
AccIn == Acc0
. The queue is traversed in queue order, that is, from front to
rear. Fun/2
must return a new accumulator, which is passed to the next call.
The function returns the final value of the accumulator. Acc0
is returned if
the queue is empty.
Returns a queue containing the items in L
in the same order; the head item of
the list becomes the front item of the queue.
Inserts Item
at the rear of queue Q1
. Returns the resulting queue Q2
.
Inserts Item
at the front of queue Q1
. Returns the resulting queue Q2
.
Tests if Q
is empty and returns true
if so, otherwise false
.
Tests if Term
is a queue and returns true
if so, otherwise false
. Note
that the test will return true
for a term coinciding with the representation
of a queue, even when not constructed by thus module. See also note on
data types.
Returns a queue Q3
that is the result of joining Q1
and Q2
with Q1
in
front of Q2
.
Calculates and returns the length of queue Q
.
Returns true
if Item
matches some element in Q
, otherwise false
.
Returns an empty queue.
Removes the item at the front of queue Q1
. Returns tuple
{{value, Item}, Q2}
, where Item
is the item removed and Q2
is the
resulting queue. If Q1
is empty, tuple {empty, Q1}
is returned.
Removes the item at the rear of queue Q1
. Returns tuple {{value, Item}, Q2}
,
where Item
is the item removed and Q2
is the new queue. If Q1
is empty,
tuple {empty, Q1}
is returned.
Returns a queue Q2
containing the items of Q1
in the reverse order.
Splits Q1
in two. The N
front items are put in Q2
and the rest in Q3
.
Returns a list of the items in the queue in the same order; the front item of the queue becomes the head of the list.
Extended API
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of removing the front item from Q1
.
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of removing the rear item from Q1
.
Returns Item
at the front of queue Q
.
Returns Item
at the rear of queue Q
.
Returns tuple {value, Item}
, where Item
is the front item of Q
, or empty
if Q
is empty.
Returns tuple {value, Item}
, where Item
is the rear item of Q
, or empty
if Q
is empty.
Okasaki API
Inserts Item
at the head of queue Q1
. Returns the new queue Q2
.
Returns the tail item of queue Q
.
Returns Item
from the head of queue Q
.
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of removing the tail item from Q1
.
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of removing the tail item from Q1
.
Returns the tail item of queue Q
.
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of removing the tail item from Q1
.
Inserts Item
as the tail item of queue Q1
. Returns the new queue Q2
.
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of removing the head item from Q1
.
Types
Original API
Returns true
if Pred(Item)
returns true
for all items Item
in Q
,
otherwise false
.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
2> queue:all(fun (E) -> E > 3 end, Queue).
false
3> queue:all(fun (E) -> E > 0 end, Queue).
true
Returns true
if Pred(Item)
returns true
for at least one item Item
in
Q
, otherwise false
.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
2> queue:any(fun (E) -> E > 10 end, Queue).
false
3> queue:any(fun (E) -> E > 3 end, Queue).
true
Returns a copy of Q1
where the first item matching Item
is deleted, if there
is such an item.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
2> Queue1 = queue:delete(3, Queue).
3> queue:member(3, Queue1).
false
Returns a copy of Q1
where the last item matching Item
is deleted, if there
is such an item.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,3,5]).
2> Queue1 = queue:delete_r(3, Queue).
3> queue:to_list(Queue1).
[1,2,3,4,5]
-spec delete_with(Pred, Q1) -> Q2 when Pred :: fun((Item) -> boolean()), Q1 :: queue(Item), Q2 :: queue(Item), Item :: term().
Returns a copy of Q1
where the first item for which Pred
returns true
is
deleted, if there is such an item.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([100,1,2,3,4,5]).
2> Queue1 = queue:delete_with(fun (E) -> E > 0, Queue).
3> queue:to_list(Queue1).
[1,2,3,4,5]
-spec delete_with_r(Pred, Q1) -> Q2 when Pred :: fun((Item) -> boolean()), Q1 :: queue(Item), Q2 :: queue(Item), Item :: term().
Returns a copy of Q1
where the last item for which Pred
returns true
is
deleted, if there is such an item.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5,100]).
2> Queue1 = queue:delete_with(fun (E) -> E > 10, Queue).
3> queue:to_list(Queue1).
[1,2,3,4,5]
-spec filter(Fun, Q1 :: queue(Item)) -> Q2 :: queue(Item) when Fun :: fun((Item) -> boolean() | [Item]).
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of calling Fun(Item)
on all items in
Q1
.
If Fun(Item)
returns true
, Item
is copied to the result queue. If it
returns false
, Item
is not copied. If it returns a list, the list elements
are inserted instead of Item
in the result queue.
Example 1:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
{[5,4,3],[1,2]}
2> Queue1 = queue:filter(fun (E) -> E > 2 end, Queue).
{[5],[3,4]}
3> queue:to_list(Queue1).
[3,4,5]
So, Fun(Item)
returning [Item]
is thereby semantically equivalent to
returning true
, just as returning []
is semantically equivalent to returning
false
. But returning a list builds more garbage than returning an atom.
Example 2:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
{[5,4,3],[1,2]}
2> Queue1 = queue:filter(fun (E) -> [E, E+1] end, Queue).
{[6,5,5,4,4,3],[1,2,2,3]}
3> queue:to_list(Queue1).
[1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,6]
-spec filtermap(Fun, Q1) -> Q2 when Fun :: fun((Item) -> boolean() | {true, Value}), Q1 :: queue(Item), Q2 :: queue(Item | Value), Item :: term(), Value :: term().
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of calling Fun(Item)
on all items in
Q1
.
If Fun(Item)
returns true
, Item
is copied to the result queue. If it
returns false
, Item
is not copied. If it returns {true, NewItem}
, the
queue element at this position is replaced with NewItem
in the result queue.
Example 1:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
{[5,4,3],[1,2]}
2> Queue1 = queue:filtermap(fun (E) -> E > 2 end, Queue).
{[5],[3,4]}
3> queue:to_list(Queue1).
[3,4,5]
4> Queue1 = queue:filtermap(fun (E) -> {true, E+100} end, Queue).
{"ihg","ef"}
5> queue:to_list(Queue1).
"efghi
-spec fold(Fun, Acc0, Q :: queue(Item)) -> Acc1 when Fun :: fun((Item, AccIn) -> AccOut), Acc0 :: term(), Acc1 :: term(), AccIn :: term(), AccOut :: term().
Calls Fun(Item, AccIn)
on successive items Item
of Queue
, starting with
AccIn == Acc0
. The queue is traversed in queue order, that is, from front to
rear. Fun/2
must return a new accumulator, which is passed to the next call.
The function returns the final value of the accumulator. Acc0
is returned if
the queue is empty.
Example:
1> queue:fold(fun(X, Sum) -> X + Sum end, 0, queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5])).
15
2> queue:fold(fun(X, Prod) -> X * Prod end, 1, queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5])).
120
-spec from_list(L :: [Item]) -> queue(Item).
Returns a queue containing the items in L
in the same order; the head item of
the list becomes the front item of the queue.
Inserts Item
at the rear of queue Q1
. Returns the resulting queue Q2
.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
{[5,4,3],[1,2]}
2> Queue1 = queue:in(100, Queue).
{[100,5,4,3],[1,2]}
3> queue:to_list(Queue1).
[1,2,3,4,5,100]
Inserts Item
at the front of queue Q1
. Returns the resulting queue Q2
.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
{[5,4,3],[1,2]}
2> Queue1 = queue:in_r(100, Queue).
{[5,4,3],[100,1,2]}
3> queue:to_list(Queue1).
[100,1,2,3,4,5]
Tests if Q
is empty and returns true
if so, otherwise false
.
Tests if Term
is a queue and returns true
if so, otherwise false
. Note
that the test will return true
for a term coinciding with the representation
of a queue, even when not constructed by thus module. See also note on
data types.
Returns a queue Q3
that is the result of joining Q1
and Q2
with Q1
in
front of Q2
.
Example:
1> Queue1 = queue:from_list([1,3]).
{[3],[1]}
2> Queue2 = queue:from_list([2,4]).
{[4],[2]}
3> queue:to_list(queue:join(Queue1, Queue2)).
[1,3,2,4]
-spec len(Q :: queue()) -> non_neg_integer().
Calculates and returns the length of queue Q
.
Returns true
if Item
matches some element in Q
, otherwise false
.
Returns an empty queue.
Removes the item at the front of queue Q1
. Returns tuple
{{value, Item}, Q2}
, where Item
is the item removed and Q2
is the
resulting queue. If Q1
is empty, tuple {empty, Q1}
is returned.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
{[5,4,3],[1,2]}
2> {{value, 1=Item}, Queue1} = queue:out(Queue).
{{value,1},{[5,4,3],[2]}}
3> queue:to_list(Queue1).
[2,3,4,5]
Removes the item at the rear of queue Q1
. Returns tuple {{value, Item}, Q2}
,
where Item
is the item removed and Q2
is the new queue. If Q1
is empty,
tuple {empty, Q1}
is returned.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
{[5,4,3],[1,2]}
2> {{value, 5=Item}, Queue1} = queue:out_r(Queue).
{{value,5},{[4,3],[1,2]}}
3> queue:to_list(Queue1).
[1,2,3,4]
Returns a queue Q2
containing the items of Q1
in the reverse order.
-spec split(N :: non_neg_integer(), Q1 :: queue(Item)) -> {Q2 :: queue(Item), Q3 :: queue(Item)}.
Splits Q1
in two. The N
front items are put in Q2
and the rest in Q3
.
-spec to_list(Q :: queue(Item)) -> [Item].
Returns a list of the items in the queue in the same order; the front item of the queue becomes the head of the list.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
{[5,4,3],[1,2]}
2> List == queue:to_list(Queue).
true
Extended API
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of removing the front item from Q1
.
Fails with reason empty
if Q1
is empty.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
{[5,4,3],[1,2]}
2> Queue = queue:drop(Queue).
{[5,4,3],[2]}
3> queue:to_list(Queue1).
[2,3,4,5]
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of removing the rear item from Q1
.
Fails with reason empty
if Q1
is empty.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
{[5,4,3],[1,2]}
2> Queue = queue:drop_r(Queue).
{[4,3],[1,2]}
3> queue:to_list(Queue1).
[1,2,3,4]
-spec get(Q :: queue(Item)) -> Item.
Returns Item
at the front of queue Q
.
Fails with reason empty
if Q
is empty.
Example 1:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
{[5,4,3],[1,2]}
2> 1 == queue:get(Queue).
true
-spec get_r(Q :: queue(Item)) -> Item.
Returns Item
at the rear of queue Q
.
Fails with reason empty
if Q
is empty.
Example 1:
1> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
{[5,4,3],[1,2]}
2> 5 == queue:get_r(Queue).
true
-spec peek(Q :: queue(Item)) -> empty | {value, Item}.
Returns tuple {value, Item}
, where Item
is the front item of Q
, or empty
if Q
is empty.
Example 1:
1> queue:peek(queue:new()).
empty
2> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
{[5,4,3],[1,2]}
3> queue:peek(Queue).
{value, 1}
-spec peek_r(Q :: queue(Item)) -> empty | {value, Item}.
Returns tuple {value, Item}
, where Item
is the rear item of Q
, or empty
if Q
is empty.
Example 1:
1> queue:peek_r(queue:new()).
empty
2> Queue = queue:from_list([1,2,3,4,5]).
{[5,4,3],[1,2]}
3> queue:peek_r(Queue).
{value, 5}
Okasaki API
Inserts Item
at the head of queue Q1
. Returns the new queue Q2
.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:cons(0, queue:from_list([1,2,3])).
{[3,2],[0,1]}
2> queue:to_list(Queue).
[0,1,2,3]
-spec daeh(Q :: queue(Item)) -> Item.
Returns the tail item of queue Q
.
Fails with reason empty
if Q
is empty.
Example 1:
1> queue:daeh(queue:from_list([1,2,3])).
3
-spec head(Q :: queue(Item)) -> Item.
Returns Item
from the head of queue Q
.
Fails with reason empty
if Q
is empty.
Example 1:
1> queue:head(queue:from_list([1,2,3])).
1
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of removing the tail item from Q1
.
Fails with reason empty
if Q1
is empty.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:init(queue:from_list([1,2,3])).
{[2],[1]}
2> queue:to_list(Queue).
[1,2]
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of removing the tail item from Q1
.
Fails with reason empty
if Q1
is empty.
The name lait/1
is a misspelling - do not use it anymore.
-spec last(Q :: queue(Item)) -> Item.
Returns the tail item of queue Q
.
Fails with reason empty
if Q
is empty.
Example:
1> queue:last(queue:from_list([1,2,3])).
3
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of removing the tail item from Q1
.
Fails with reason empty
if Q1
is empty.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:liat(queue:from_list([1,2,3])).
{[2],[1]}
2> queue:to_list(Queue).
[1,2]
Inserts Item
as the tail item of queue Q1
. Returns the new queue Q2
.
Example:
1> Queue = queue:snoc(queue:from_list([1,2,3]), 4).
{[4,3,2],[1]}
2> queue:to_list(Queue).
[1,2,3,4]
Returns a queue Q2
that is the result of removing the head item from Q1
.
Fails with reason empty
if Q1
is empty.