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# More queue procedures

We can now address three more procedures: how to insert a fan into a queue, how to remove a fan from the queue, and how to print the queue. Let us take the printing procedure first. Here it is:

       PROC print queue = (REF REF QUEUE head)VOID:
       IF head IS nilq
       THEN print(("NIL",newline))
       ELSE print((newline,
                   "(",name OF fan OF head,",",
                   whole(ticket OF fan OF head,0),
                   ")=>"));
            print queue(next OF head)
       FI

By not using the triple `REF` name for the head of the queue, we can use recursion to simplify the procedure. Recursion is common in procedures for linked-lists.

Inserting a fan is a little more difficult. There are several possibilities: the queue can be empty or non-empty. If it is non-empty, the fan can be inserted at the head of the queue, or if there are at least two fans in the queue, the fan could be inserted somewhere between the head and the tail. The question is, how many parameters are required for the procedure? Clearly, we need `head` to determine whether the queue is empty, `tail` to be updated in case it is or if the fan is to be added to the end of the queue. Here is a possible header:

       PROC insert fan=(REF REF REF QUEUE head,tail,
                        REF FAN fan)VOID:

We need a criterion for determining where in the queue a fan should be inserted. Here is one: the fans should be inserted in the order of ticket number (using a queue is not an efficient way of doing this, but this criterion will do for our purposes). Here is `insert fan` with a diagram to help you understand it:

       PROC insert fan=(REF REF REF QUEUE head,tail,
                        REF FAN fan)VOID:
       IF   head IS nilq
       THEN #the queue is empty#
          REF REF QUEUE(head):=
                HEAP QUEUE:=(fan,nilq);
          tail:=next OF head
       ELIF ticket OF fan < ticket OF fan OF head
       THEN
          #insert the fan at the head of the queue#
          REF REF QUEUE(head):=
                HEAP QUEUE:=(fan,head)
       ELIF next OF head IS nilq
       THEN #add the fan after the head#
          REF REF QUEUE(tail):=
                HEAP QUEUE:=(fan,nilq);
          tail:=next OF tail
       ELIF REF QUEUE marker:=head;
          WHILE
             IF (next OF marker ISNT nilq)
             THEN
                ticket OF fan
                      >
                ticket OF fan OF next OF marker
             ELSE FALSE
             FI
          DO marker:=next OF marker OD;
          next OF marker IS nilq
       THEN
       #add the fan to the end of the queue#
          REF REF QUEUE(tail):=
                HEAP QUEUE:=(fan,nilq);
          tail:=next OF tail
       ELSE
       CO insert the fan between `marker'
          and `next of marker' CO
          next OF marker:=
                HEAP QUEUE:=(fan,next OF marker)
       FI

There are three lines where you need to look carefully at the modes and values involved:

- the line which ends in `(fan,head)`,
- the line which ends in `(fan,next OF marker)`,
- the line containing the `>` operator.

Discussion of this procedure completes our examination of queues.

## Exercises

11.21
  In the procedure `insert fan`, explain the circumstances in which the loop will terminate. Ans
11.22
  Using the procedure `print queue`, confirm that the procedure `insert fan` works. Ans
11.23
  Write the procedure `delete fan` which will delete a fan with a given ticket number from the queue. It should yield the fan if it has been deleted and `FALSE` if it cannot be found. This diagram should help you:
  Include the procedure in a program and test it. Ans