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make-queue
enqueue!
enqueue-front!
dequeue!
queue-filter!
queue->list
queue-length
queue-empty?
queue?
non-empty-queue?
in-queue
queue/ c
nonempty-queue/ c

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### 1`` Imperative Queues🔗ℹ

Carl Eastlund <cce@racket-lang.org>

(require data/queue) | package: base

This module provides a simple mutable queue representation, providing first-in/first-out semantics.

Operations on queues mutate it in a thread-unsafe way.

> procedure (make-queue) → queue?

Produces an empty queue.

> procedure (enqueue! q v) → void?
> q : queue?
> v : any/c

Adds an element to the back of a queue.

This takes constant time, independent of the number of elements in q.

> procedure (enqueue-front! q v) → void?
> q : queue?
> v : any/c

Adds an element to the front of a queue.

This takes constant time, independent of the number of elements in q.

> procedure (dequeue! q) → any/c
> q : non-empty-queue?

Removes an element from the front of a non-empty queue, and returns that element.

This takes constant time, independent of the number of elements in q.

Examples:

> (define q (make-queue))
> > (enqueue! q 1)
> > (dequeue! q)
> 1
> > (enqueue! q 2)
> > (enqueue! q 3)
> > (dequeue! q)
> 2
> > (dequeue! q)
> 3
> > (enqueue! q 2)
> > (enqueue! q 1)
> > (enqueue-front! q 3)
> > (enqueue-front! q 4)
> > (queue->list q)
> '(4 3 2 1)

> procedure (queue-filter! q pred?) → void?
> q : queue?
> pred? : (-> any/c any/c)

Applies pred? to each element of the queue, removing any where pred? returns #f.

This takes time proportional to the number of elements in q (assuming that pred? takes constant time, independent of the number of elements in q). It does not allocate and it calls pred? exactly once for each element of q.

Examples:

> (define q (make-queue))
> > (enqueue! q 1)
> > (enqueue! q 2)
> > (enqueue! q 3)
> > (enqueue! q 4)
> > (queue-filter! q even?)
> > (queue->list q)
> '(2 4)

> procedure (queue->list q) → (listof any/c)
> q : queue?

Returns an immutable list containing the elements of the queue in the order the elements were added.

This takes time proportional to the number of elements in q.

Examples:

> (define q (make-queue))
> > (enqueue! q 8)
> > (enqueue! q 9)
> > (enqueue! q 0)
> > (queue->list q)
> '(8 9 0)

> procedure (queue-length q) → exact-nonnegative-integer?
> q : queue?

Returns the number of elements in the queue.

This takes constant time, independent of the number of elements in q.

Examples:

> (define q (make-queue))
> > (queue-length q)
> 0
> > (enqueue! q 5)
> > (enqueue! q 12)
> > (queue-length q)
> 2
> > (dequeue! q)
> 5
> > (queue-length q)
> 1

> procedure (queue-empty? q) → boolean?
> q : queue?

Recognizes whether a queue is empty or not.

This takes constant time, independent of the number of elements in q.

Examples:

> (define q (make-queue))
> > (queue-empty? q)
> #t
> > (enqueue! q 1)
> > (queue-empty? q)
> #f
> > (dequeue! q)
> 1
> > (queue-empty? q)
> #t

> procedure (queue? v) → boolean?
> v : any/c

This predicate recognizes queues.

This takes constant time, independent of the size of the argument v.

Examples:

> > (queue? (make-queue))
> #t
> > (queue? 'not-a-queue)
> #f

> procedure (non-empty-queue? v) → boolean?
> v : any/c

This predicate recognizes non-empty queues.

This takes constant time, independent of the size of the argument v.

Examples:

> > (non-empty-queue? (let ([q (make-queue)])
> (enqueue! q 1)
> q))
> #t
> > (non-empty-queue? (make-queue))
> #f
> > (non-empty-queue? 'not-a-queue)
> #f

> procedure (in-queue q) → sequence?
> q : queue?

Returns a sequence whose elements are the elements of q.

> value queue/c : flat-contract?
> value nonempty-queue/c : flat-contract?

These are provided for backwards compatibility. They are identical to queue? and non-empty-queue?, respectively.
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