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Elements of Programming
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Elements of Programming

by Paul McJones, Alexander Stepanov
June 2009
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 59m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 7

Coordinate Structures

Chapter 6 introduced a family of iterator concepts as the interface between algorithms and objects in data structures with immutable linear shape. This chapter goes beyond iterators to coordinate structures with more complex shape. We introduce bifurcate coordinates and implement algorithms on binary trees with the help of a machine for iterative tree traversal. After discussing a concept schema for coordinate structures, we conclude with algorithms for isomorphism, equivalence, and ordering.

7.1 Bifurcate Coordinates

Iterators allow us to traverse linear structures, which have a single successor at each position. While there are data structures with an arbitrary number of successors, in this chapter we study an ...

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