
Data Structure

This illustrates a data structure, a means of storing data within a program.

You may see other such structures in the Data Structures category.
 Illustration of FIFO behavior
Task

Create a queue data structure and demonstrate its operations.

(For implementations of queues, see the FIFO task.)



Operations:

   push       (aka enqueue) - add element
   pop         (aka dequeue) - pop first element
   empty     - return truth value when empty


See also

 Array
 Associative array: Creation, Iteration
 Collections
 Compound data type
 Doubly-linked list: Definition, Element definition, Element insertion, List Traversal, Element Removal
 Linked list
 Queue: Definition, Usage
 Set
 Singly-linked list: Element definition, Element insertion, List Traversal, Element Removal
 Stack


1> Q = fifo:new().
{fifo,[],[]}
2> fifo:empty(Q).
true
3> Q2 = fifo:push(Q,1).         
{fifo,[1],[]}
4> Q3 = fifo:push(Q2,2).
{fifo,[2,1],[]}
5> fifo:empty(Q3).
false
6> fifo:pop(Q3).
{1,{fifo,[],[2]}}
7> {Popped, Q} = fifo:pop(Q2).
{1,{fifo,[],[]}}
8> fifo:pop(fifo:new()).
** exception error: 'empty fifo'
     in function  fifo:pop/1