yap-6.3/library/queues.yap

/**
 * @file   queues.yap
 * @author R.A.O'Keefe
 * @date   Friday November 18th, 1983, 8:09:31 
 * @author VITOR SANTOS COSTA <vsc@VITORs-MBP.lan>
 * @date   1999-
 * 
 * @brief   define queue operations
 * 
 * 
*/

:- module(queues, [
	make_queue/1,		%   create empty queue
	join_queue/3,		%   add element to end of queue
	list_join_queue/3,	%   add many elements to end of queue
	jump_queue/3,		%   add element to front of queue
	list_jump_queue/3,	%   add many elements to front of queue
	head_queue/2,		%   look at first element of queue
	serve_queue/3,		%   remove first element of queue
	length_queue/2,		%   count elements of queue
	empty_queue/1,		%   test whether queue is empty
	list_to_queue/2,	%   convert list to queue
	queue_to_list/2		%   convert queue to list
    ]).


/** @defgroup queues Queues
@ingroup library
@{

The following queue manipulation routines are available once
included with the `use_module(library(queues))` command. Queues are
implemented with difference lists.

In this package, a queue is represented as a term Front-Back,  where
    Front  is  a list and Back is a tail of that list, and is normally a
    variable.  join_queue will only work when the Back  is  a  variable,
    the  other routines will accept any tail.  The elements of the queue
    are the list difference, that is, all the elements starting at Front
    and stopping at Back.  Examples:

	[a,b,c,d,e|Z]-Z	    has elements a,b,c,d,e
	[a,b,c,d,e]-[d,e]   has elements a,b,c
	Z-Z		    has no elements
	[1,2,3]-[1,2,3]	    has no elements


*/

/**

 @pred make_queue(+ _Queue_) 


Creates a new empty queue. It should only be used to create a new queue.

 
*/


/** @pred empty_queue(+ _Queue_) 


Tests whether the queue is empty.

 
*/
/** @pred head_queue(+ _Queue_, ? _Head_) 


Unifies Head with the first element of the queue.

 
*/
/** @pred join_queue(+ _Element_, + _OldQueue_, - _NewQueue_) 


Adds the new element at the end of the queue.

 
*/
/** @pred jump_queue(+ _Element_, + _OldQueue_, - _NewQueue_) 


Adds the new element at the front of the list.

 
*/
/** @pred length_queue(+ _Queue_, - _Length_) 


Counts the number of elements currently in the queue.

 
*/
/** @pred list_join_queue(+ _List_, + _OldQueue_, - _NewQueue_) 


Ads the new elements at the end of the queue.

 
*/
/** @pred list_jump_queue(+ _List_, + _OldQueue_, + _NewQueue_) 


Adds all the elements of  _List_ at the front of the queue.

 
*/
/** @pred list_to_queue(+ _List_, - _Queue_) 


Creates a new queue with the same elements as  _List._

 
*/
/** @pred queue_to_list(+ _Queue_, - _List_) 


Creates a new list with the same elements as  _Queue_.




 */
/** @pred serve_queue(+ _OldQueue_, + _Head_, - _NewQueue_) 


Removes the first element of the queue for service.

 
*/
:- use_module(library(lists), [append/3]).

/*
:- mode
	make_queue(-),
	join_queue(+, +, -),
	list_join_queue(+, +, -),
	jump_queue(+, +, -),
	list_jump_queue(+, +, -),
	head_queue(+, ?),
	serve_queue(+, ?, -),
	length_queue(+, ?),
	length_queue(+, +, +, -),
	empty_queue(+),
	list_to_queue(+, -),
	queue_to_list(+, -),
	queue_to_list(+, +, -).
*/

%   make_queue(Queue)
%   creates a new empty queue.  It will also match empty queues, but
%   because Prolog doesn't do the occurs check, it will also match
%   other queues, creating circular lists.  So this should ONLY be
%   used to make new queues.

make_queue(X-X).



%   join_queue(Element, OldQueue, NewQueue)
%   adds the new element at the end of the queue.  The old queue is
%   side-effected, so you *can't* do
%	join_queue(1, OldQ, NewQ1),
%	join_queue(2, OldQ, NewQ2).
%   There isn't any easy way of doing that, sensible though it might
%   be.  You *can* do
%	join_queue(1, OldQ, MidQ),
%	join_queue(2, MidQ, NewQ).
%   See list_join_queue.

join_queue(Element, Front-[Element|Back], Front-Back).



%   list_join_queue(List, OldQueue, NewQueue)
%   adds the new elements at the end of the queue.  The elements are
%   added in the same order that they appear in the list, e.g.
%   list_join_queue([y,z], [a,b,c|M]-M, [a,b,c,y,z|N]-N).

list_join_queue(List, Front-OldBack, Front-NewBack) :-
	append(List, OldBack, NewBack).



%   jump_queue(Element, OldQueue, NewQueue)
%   adds the new element at the front of the list.  Unlike join_queue,
%	jump_queue(1, OldQ, NewQ1),
%	jump_queue(2, OldQ, NewQ2)
%   *does* work, though if you add things at the end of NewQ1 they
%   will also show up in NewQ2.  Note that
%	jump_queue(1, OldQ, MidQ),
%	jump_queue(2, MidQ, NewQ)
%   makes NewQ start 2, 1, ...

jump_queue(Element, Front-Back, [Element|Front]-Back).



%   list_jump_queue(List, OldQueue, NewQueue)
%   adds all the elements of List at the front of the queue.  There  are
%   two  ways  we might do this.  We could add all the elements one at a
%   time, so that they would appear at the beginning of the queue in the
%   opposite order to the order they had in the list, or  we  could  add
%   them in one lump, so that they have the same order in the  queue  as
%   in  the  list.   As you can easily add the elements one at a time if
%   that is what you want, I have chosen the latter.

list_jump_queue(List, OldFront-Back, NewFront-Back) :-
	append(List, OldFront, NewFront).
%	reverse(List, OldFront, NewFront).	% for the other definition



%   head_queue(Queue, Head)
%   unifies Head with the first element of the queue.  The tricky part
%   is that we might be at the end of a queue: Back-Back, with Back a
%   variable, and in that case this predicate should not succeed, as we
%   don't know what that element is or whether it exists yet.

head_queue(Front-Back, Head) :-
	Front \== Back,		%  the queue is not empty
	Front = [Head|_].



%   serve_queue(OldQueue, Head, NewQueue)
%   removes the first element of the queue for service.

serve_queue(OldFront-Back, Head, NewFront-Back) :-
	OldFront \== Back,
	OldFront = [Head|NewFront].



%   empty_queue(Queue)
%   tests whether the queue is empty.  If the back of a queue were
%   guaranteed to be a variable, we could have
%	empty_queue(Front-Back) :- var(Front).
%   but I don't see why you shouldn't be able to treat difference
%   lists as queues if you want to.

empty_queue(Front-Back) :-
	Front == Back.



%   length_queue(Queue, Length)
%   counts the number of elements currently in the queue.  Note that
%   we have to be careful in checking for the end of the list, we
%   can't test for [] the way length(List) does.

length_queue(Front-Back, Length) :-
	length_queue(Front, Back, 0, N),
	Length = N.

length_queue(Front, Back, N, N) :-
	Front == Back, !.
length_queue([_|Front], Back, K, N) :-
	L is K+1,
	length_queue(Front, Back, L, N).



%   list_to_queue(List, Queue)
%   creates a new queue with the same elements as List.

list_to_queue(List, Front-Back) :-
	append(List, Back, Front).



%   queue_to_list(Queue, List)
%   creates a new list with the same elements as Queue.

queue_to_list(Front-Back, List) :-
	queue_to_list(Front, Back, List).

queue_to_list(Front, Back, Ans) :-
	Front == Back, !, Ans = [].
queue_to_list([Head|Front], Back, [Head|Tail]) :-
	queue_to_list(Front, Back, Tail).

/** @} */