deques

Implementation of a deque (double-ended queue). The underlying implementation uses a seq.

None of the procs that get an individual value from the deque can be used on an empty deque. If compiled with boundChecks option, those procs will raise an IndexDefect on such access. This should not be relied upon, as -d:danger or --checks:off will disable those checks and may return garbage or crash the program.

As such, a check to see if the deque is empty is needed before any access, unless your program logic guarantees it indirectly.

import deques

var a = initDeque[int]()

doAssertRaises(IndexDefect, echo a[0])

for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
assert $a == "[10, 20, 30, 40, 50]"

assert a.peekFirst == 10
assert a.peekLast == 50
assert len(a) == 5

assert a.popFirst == 10
assert a.popLast == 50
assert len(a) == 3

a.addFirst(11)
a.addFirst(22)
a.addFirst(33)
assert $a == "[33, 22, 11, 20, 30, 40]"

a.shrink(fromFirst = 1, fromLast = 2)
assert $a == "[22, 11, 20]"

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Imports

since, math

Types

Deque[T] = object
  data: seq[T]
  head, tail, count, mask: int

A double-ended queue backed with a ringed seq buffer.

To initialize an empty deque use initDeque proc.

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Consts

defaultInitialSize = 4
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Procs

proc initDeque[T](initialSize: int = 4): Deque[T]

Creates a new empty deque.

Optionally, the initial capacity can be reserved via initialSize as a performance optimization. The length of a newly created deque will still be 0.

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proc toDeque[T](x: openArray[T]): Deque[T]

Creates a new deque that contains the elements of x (in the same order).

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Example:

var a = toDeque([7, 8, 9])
assert len(a) == 3
assert a.popFirst == 7
assert len(a) == 2
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proc len[T](deq: Deque[T]): int {...}{.inline.}
Returns the number of elements of deq. Source Edit
proc `[]`[T](deq: Deque[T]; i: Natural): T {...}{.inline.}
Accesses the i-th element of deq.

Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
assert a[0] == 10
assert a[3] == 40
doAssertRaises(IndexDefect, echo a[8])
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proc `[]`[T](deq: var Deque[T]; i: Natural): var T {...}{.inline.}
Accesses the i-th element of deq and return a mutable reference to it.

Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
assert a[0] == 10
assert a[3] == 40
doAssertRaises(IndexDefect, echo a[8])
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proc `[]=`[T](deq: var Deque[T]; i: Natural; val: T) {...}{.inline.}
Changes the i-th element of deq.

Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
a[0] = 99
a[3] = 66
assert $a == "[99, 20, 30, 66, 50]"
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proc `[]`[T](deq: Deque[T]; i: BackwardsIndex): T {...}{.inline.}

Accesses the backwards indexed i-th element.

deq[^1] is the last element.

Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
assert a[^1] == 50
assert a[^4] == 20
doAssertRaises(IndexDefect, echo a[^9])
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proc `[]`[T](deq: var Deque[T]; i: BackwardsIndex): var T {...}{.inline.}

Accesses the backwards indexed i-th element.

deq[^1] is the last element.

Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
assert a[^1] == 50
assert a[^4] == 20
doAssertRaises(IndexDefect, echo a[^9])
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proc `[]=`[T](deq: var Deque[T]; i: BackwardsIndex; x: T) {...}{.inline.}

Changes the backwards indexed i-th element.

deq[^1] is the last element.

Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
a[^1] = 99
a[^3] = 77
assert $a == "[10, 20, 77, 40, 99]"
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proc contains[T](deq: Deque[T]; item: T): bool {...}{.inline.}

Returns true if item is in deq or false if not found.

Usually used via the in operator. It is the equivalent of deq.find(item) >= 0.

if x in q:
  assert q.contains(x)
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proc addFirst[T](deq: var Deque[T]; item: T)

Adds an item to the beginning of the deq.

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Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addFirst(10*i)
assert $a == "[50, 40, 30, 20, 10]"
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proc addLast[T](deq: var Deque[T]; item: T)

Adds an item to the end of the deq.

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Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
assert $a == "[10, 20, 30, 40, 50]"
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proc peekFirst[T](deq: Deque[T]): T {...}{.inline.}

Returns the first element of deq, but does not remove it from the deque.

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Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
assert $a == "[10, 20, 30, 40, 50]"
assert a.peekFirst == 10
assert len(a) == 5
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proc peekLast[T](deq: Deque[T]): T {...}{.inline.}

Returns the last element of deq, but does not remove it from the deque.

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Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
assert $a == "[10, 20, 30, 40, 50]"
assert a.peekLast == 50
assert len(a) == 5
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proc peekFirst[T](deq: var Deque[T]): var T {...}{.inline.}

Returns the first element of deq, but does not remove it from the deque.

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Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
assert $a == "[10, 20, 30, 40, 50]"
assert a.peekFirst == 10
assert len(a) == 5
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proc peekLast[T](deq: var Deque[T]): var T {...}{.inline.}

Returns the last element of deq, but does not remove it from the deque.

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Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
assert $a == "[10, 20, 30, 40, 50]"
assert a.peekLast == 50
assert len(a) == 5
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proc popFirst[T](deq: var Deque[T]): T {...}{.inline, discardable.}

Removes and returns the first element of the deq.

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Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
assert $a == "[10, 20, 30, 40, 50]"
assert a.popFirst == 10
assert $a == "[20, 30, 40, 50]"
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proc popLast[T](deq: var Deque[T]): T {...}{.inline, discardable.}

Removes and returns the last element of the deq.

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Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
assert $a == "[10, 20, 30, 40, 50]"
assert a.popLast == 50
assert $a == "[10, 20, 30, 40]"
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proc clear[T](deq: var Deque[T]) {...}{.inline.}

Resets the deque so that it is empty.

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Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addFirst(10*i)
assert $a == "[50, 40, 30, 20, 10]"
clear(a)
assert len(a) == 0
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proc shrink[T](deq: var Deque[T]; fromFirst = 0; fromLast = 0)

Removes fromFirst elements from the front of the deque and fromLast elements from the back.

If the supplied number of elements exceeds the total number of elements in the deque, the deque will remain empty.

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Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addFirst(10*i)
assert $a == "[50, 40, 30, 20, 10]"
a.shrink(fromFirst = 2, fromLast = 1)
assert $a == "[30, 20]"
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proc `$`[T](deq: Deque[T]): string
Turns a deque into its string representation. Source Edit

Iterators

iterator items[T](deq: Deque[T]): T

Yields every element of deq.

Examples:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 3:
  a.addLast(10*i)

for x in a:  # the same as: for x in items(a):
  echo x

# 10
# 20
# 30
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iterator mitems[T](deq: var Deque[T]): var T
Yields every element of deq, which can be modified.

Example:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 5:
  a.addLast(10*i)
assert $a == "[10, 20, 30, 40, 50]"
for x in mitems(a):
  x = 5*x - 1
assert $a == "[49, 99, 149, 199, 249]"
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iterator pairs[T](deq: Deque[T]): tuple[key: int, val: T]

Yields every (position, value) of deq.

Examples:

var a = initDeque[int]()
for i in 1 .. 3:
  a.addLast(10*i)

for k, v in pairs(a):
  echo "key: ", k, ", value: ", v

# key: 0, value: 10
# key: 1, value: 20
# key: 2, value: 30
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