
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

Implement a FIFO queue.

Elements are added at one side and popped from the other in the order of insertion.



Operations:

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


Errors:

   handle the error of trying to pop from an empty queue (behavior depends on the language and platform)


See

   Queue/Usage   for the built-in FIFO or queue of your language or standard library.


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


proc push {stackvar value} {
    upvar 1 $stackvar stack
    lappend stack $value
}
proc pop {stackvar} {
    upvar 1 $stackvar stack
    set value [lindex $stack 0]
    set stack [lrange $stack 1 end]
    return $value
}
proc size {stackvar} {
    upvar 1 $stackvar stack
    llength $stack
}
proc empty {stackvar} {
    upvar 1 $stackvar stack
    expr {[size stack] == 0}
}
proc peek {stackvar} {
    upvar 1 $stackvar stack
    lindex $stack 0
}
 
set Q [list]
empty Q ;# ==> 1 (true)
push Q foo
empty Q ;# ==> 0 (false)
push Q bar
peek Q ;# ==> foo
pop Q ;# ==> foo
peek Q ;# ==> bar