krahets/hello-algo · error · IndexError

очередь пуста

Error message

очередь пуста

What it means

Raised by LinkedListQueue#peek (ru) on an empty queue. `pop` delegates to peek (`num = peek`), so this same raise surfaces for both `peek` and `pop` when empty. The guard protects `@front.val` from a nil @front.

Source

Thrown at ru/codes/ruby/chapter_stack_and_queue/linkedlist_queue.rb:55

      @rear.next = node
      @rear = node
    end

    @size += 1
  end

  ### Извлечение из очереди ###
  def pop
    num = peek
    # Удалить головной узел
    @front = @front.next
    @size -= 1
    num
  end

  ### Доступ к элементу в начале очереди ###
  def peek
    raise IndexError, 'очередь пуста' if is_empty?

    @front.val
  end

  ### Преобразовать связный список в Array и вернуть ###
  def to_array
    queue = []
    temp = @front
    while temp
      queue << temp.val
      temp = temp.next
    end
    queue
  end
end

### Driver Code ###
if __FILE__ == $0

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Solutions

  1. Guard with `queue.is_empty?` before peek or pop.
  2. Drive consumer loops with `until queue.is_empty?`.
  3. Wrap pop in a helper returning nil on empty for optional semantics.

Example fix

// before
queue.pop  # raises 'очередь пуста' when empty

// after
item = queue.is_empty? ? nil : queue.pop
Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

Validate before calling

item = queue.pop unless queue.is_empty?

Type guard

def queue_nonempty?(q) = !q.is_empty?

Try / catch

begin
  item = queue.pop  # also covers peek
rescue IndexError
  item = nil
end

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: Calling `queue.peek` or `queue.pop` on an empty LinkedListQueue — before any push, or after the last element is dequeued. A consumer that overshoots triggers it.

Common situations: Consumer faster than producer; dequeuing the last item then dequeuing once more; a driver that peeks before the first push.

Related errors


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