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Zipper (data structure)

A zipper is a technique of representing an aggregate data structure so that it is convenient for writing programs that traverse the structure arbitrarily and update its contents, especially in purely functional programming languages. The zipper was described by Gérard Huet in 1997. It includes and generalizes the gap buffer technique sometimes used with…

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Zipper (data structure)

Nodes39
Edges38
Triples2
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.051282
Components1

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zipper list data structure displaystyle type location tree times technique derivative lists constructor may represented programming functional structures list-zipper element

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Listsinstance ofit is easy to define relatively efficient operations on immutable data structures0.80text
Trees at arbitrary locationsinstance ofit is easy to define relatively efficient operations on immutable data structures0.80text

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