March 2011
Intermediate
976 pages
28h 1m
English
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1.3 Bags, Queues, and Stacks
SEVERAL FUNDAMENTAL DATA TYPES involve collections of objects. Specifically, the set of values is a collection of objects, and the operations revolve around adding, removing, or examining objects in the collection. In this section, we consider three such data types, known as the bag, the queue, and the stack. They differ in the specification of which object is to be removed or examined next.
Bags, queues, and stacks are fundamental and broadly useful. We use them in implementations throughout the book. Beyond this direct applicability, the client and implementation code in this section serves as an introduction to our general approach to the development of data structures and algorithms.
One goal of this section ...