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C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software
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C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software

by David R. Hanson - Princeton University
August 1996
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
9h 33m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 12. Rings

A ring is much like a sequence: It holds N values associated with the integer indices zero through N−1 when N is positive. An empty ring holds no values. Values are pointers. Like the values in a sequence, values in a ring may be accessed by indexing.

Unlike a sequence, however, values can be added to a ring anywhere, and any value in a ring can be removed. In addition, the values can be renumbered: “rotating” a ring left decrements the index of each value by one modulo the length of the ring; rotating it right increments the indices by one modulo the ring length. The price for the flexibility of adding values to and removing values from arbitrary locations in a ring is that accessing the ith value is not guaranteed to take constant ...

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