From 7727920ba279fbef9f55ffa2c334778c7ef25fc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:52:20 -0400
Subject: iterator: add a method for reversing a container

this works on any container with a mutable double-ended iterator
---
 src/libstd/iterator.rs | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/libstd/prelude.rs  |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src')

diff --git a/src/libstd/iterator.rs b/src/libstd/iterator.rs
index 554913ab5ec..36e62856464 100644
--- a/src/libstd/iterator.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/iterator.rs
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ use ops::{Add, Mul, Sub};
 use cmp::Ord;
 use clone::Clone;
 use uint;
+use util;
 
 /// Conversion from an `Iterator`
 pub trait FromIterator<A> {
@@ -583,6 +584,26 @@ pub trait DoubleEndedIterator<A>: Iterator<A> {
     }
 }
 
+/// A double-ended iterator yielding mutable references
+pub trait MutableDoubleEndedIterator {
+    // FIXME: #5898: should be called `reverse`
+    /// Use an iterator to reverse a container in-place
+    fn reverse_(&mut self);
+}
+
+impl<'self, A, T: DoubleEndedIterator<&'self mut A>> MutableDoubleEndedIterator for T {
+    // FIXME: #5898: should be called `reverse`
+    /// Use an iterator to reverse a container in-place
+    fn reverse_(&mut self) {
+        loop {
+            match (self.next(), self.next_back()) {
+                (Some(x), Some(y)) => util::swap(x, y),
+                _ => break
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// An object implementing random access indexing by `uint`
 ///
 /// A `RandomAccessIterator` should be either infinite or a `DoubleEndedIterator`.
@@ -2338,4 +2359,11 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(range_inclusive(0i, 5).collect::<~[int]>(), ~[0i, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
         assert_eq!(range_inclusive(0i, 5).invert().collect::<~[int]>(), ~[5i, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0]);
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_reverse() {
+        let mut ys = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
+        ys.mut_iter().reverse_();
+        assert_eq!(ys, [5, 4, 3, 2, 1]);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/libstd/prelude.rs b/src/libstd/prelude.rs
index 893c32e830a..7a0346c94fc 100644
--- a/src/libstd/prelude.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/prelude.rs
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ pub use container::{Container, Mutable, Map, MutableMap, Set, MutableSet};
 pub use hash::Hash;
 pub use iter::Times;
 pub use iterator::Extendable;
-pub use iterator::{Iterator, DoubleEndedIterator};
-pub use iterator::{ClonableIterator, OrdIterator};
+pub use iterator::{Iterator, DoubleEndedIterator, ClonableIterator, OrdIterator};
+pub use iterator::MutableDoubleEndedIterator;
 pub use num::{Num, NumCast, CheckedAdd, CheckedSub, CheckedMul};
 pub use num::{Orderable, Signed, Unsigned, Round};
 pub use num::{Algebraic, Trigonometric, Exponential, Hyperbolic};
-- 
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