From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-07-12T05:46:31+09:00
Subject: Re: new to ruby,how to make FIFO in ruby?

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 05:17:20AM +0900, Maggie Xiao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there anyone can tell me how to make FIFO in ruby? I cannot find the 
> related method? Thanks.
> 
> Maggie

Well, you use a Array push and shift.  If you want this behavior
could be coded as:

class Simple_FIFO
  def initialize
    @data = Array.new
  end	

  def push(val)
    @data.push(val)
  end

  def pop(val)
    @data.shift(val)
  end
end

Error handling is left as an excercise to the reader :)

- alan

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