Data Structs in Ruby

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Hello,

How would the implementation of such a stack or queue, and Ruby, already
has something "ready" to handle ...

Thakns.

I sorry but my english is not very good.

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Array can act as a stack as it has #pop and #last. It can also act as a queue as it also has #first and #shift. You can wrap this functionality in a Queue and Stack classes to make it more explicit if you like.

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-----Original Message-----
From: edipofederle@gmail.com [mailto:edipofederle@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 11:35 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Data Structs in Ruby

Hello,

How would the implementation of such a stack or queue, and Ruby, already
has something "ready" to handle ...

Thakns.

I sorry but my english is not very good.
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Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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Bilyk, Alex wrote:

Array can act as a stack as it has #pop and #last. It can also act as a
queue as it also has #first and #shift. You can wrap this functionality
in a Queue and Stack classes to make it more explicit if you like.

Included in the Ruby standard library:

irb(main):001:0> require 'thread'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> q = Queue.new
=> #<Queue:0xb7d753e0>
irb(main):003:0> q.push "abc"
=> #<Queue:0xb7d753e0>
irb(main):004:0> q.pop
=> "abc"

This queue object is thread-safe. There is also SizedQueue, which blocks
pushes when the queue reaches a certain size, until another element has
been popped.

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Array can act as a stack as it has #pop and #last.

It even has #push.

It can also act as a queue as it also has #first and #shift.

You can use #push and #shift or #unshift and #pop for queue behavior. Plus there is Queue as Brian mentioned.

Cheers

  robert

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On 31.10.2008 22:27, Bilyk, Alex wrote: