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D Cookbook

You're reading from   D Cookbook Discover the advantages of programming in D with over 100 incredibly effective recipes with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783287215
Length 362 pages
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

D Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Core Tasks FREE CHAPTER Phobos – The Standard Library Ranges Integration Resource Management Wrapped Types Correctness Checking Reflection Code Generation Multitasking D for Kernel Coding Web and GUI Programming Addendum Index

Creating an input range over a tree structure


Using ranges in cases where you would typically use a recursive function can be a bit tricky. As the function flow when using ranges is controlled externally, you can't use recursion. Instead, you must maintain a stack of state inside your range structure. Here, we'll implement an input range that iterates over a tree structure of arbitrary depth.

Getting ready

First, let's look at the most straightforward way to implement this loop, which is with a recursive function. This is shown in the following code:

struct TreePart {
    string payload;
    TreePart[] children;
}
void walkTree(void delegate(string) visitor, TreePart root) {
    visitor(root.payload);
    foreach(child; root.children)
        walkTree(visitor, child);
}

This function lends itself easily to the opApply iteration, which is great for foreach loops, but internal iteration doesn't interact well with the other algorithms and ranges in Phobos and other libraries. How can we make a...

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