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rstackdeque (version 1.1.1)

fixd: Fix an rdeque

Description

Maintains the invariant that there is always something in two stacks used by rdeques under the hood so long as there is 2 more elements in the rdeque.

Usage

fixd(d, ...)

Arguments

d
rdeque to fix.
...
additional arguments to be passed to or from methods (ignored).

Value

fixed, "balanced" deque.

Details

In fact, fix will be called whenever there are fewer than 6 elements in both the front and end of the deque. Generally this method is $O(N)$, and so a full copy is returned.

References

Okasaki, Chris. Purely Functional Data Structures. Cambridge University Press, 1999.