
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


OrderedCollection extend [
   push: obj [ ^(self add: obj) ]
   pop [
       (self isEmpty) ifTrue: [
          SystemExceptions.NotFound signalOn: self
                reason: 'queue empty'
       ] ifFalse: [
          ^(self removeFirst)
       ]
   ]
]
 
|f|
f := OrderedCollection new.
f push: 'example'; push: 'another'; push: 'last'.
f pop printNl.
f pop printNl.
f pop printNl.
f isEmpty printNl.
f pop. "queue empty error"