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STL-Style Functor Delegates

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An article on how to use delegates to emulate STL-functors
/*
 * Copyright (c) 2002, Jorgen Sigvardsson <jorgen@profitab.com>
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using System;
using System.Collections;

namespace NETUtils {
	public class Algorithms {
		public static void ForEach(IEnumerator e, Functors.UnaryFunctor func) {
			while(e.MoveNext())
				func(e.Current);
		}

		public static void ForEachWhich(IEnumerator e, Functors.UnaryFunctor func, Functions.Predicate pred) {
			while(e.MoveNext())
				if(pred(e.Current))
					func(e.Current);
		}

		public static object Accumulate(IEnumerator e, object objStartValue, Functors.BinaryFunctor func) {
			while(e.MoveNext()) {
				objStartValue = func(objStartValue, e.Current);
			}

			return objStartValue;
		}

		public static IEnumerator FindIf(IEnumerator e, Functions.Predicate pred) {
			while(e.MoveNext()) {
				if(pred(e.Current))
					break;
			}

			return e;
		}

		public static int CountIf(IEnumerator e, Functions.Predicate pred) {
			int nCount = 0;
			while(e.MoveNext()) {
				if(pred(e.Current))
					++nCount;
			}
			return nCount;
		}
		
		public static Pair MismatchIf(IEnumerator e1, IEnumerator e2, Functions.BinaryPredicate pred) {
			while(e1.MoveNext() && e2.MoveNext()) {
				if(pred(e1.Current, e2.Current))
					break;
			}

			return new Pair(e1, e2);
		}

		public static bool Equal(IEnumerator e1, IEnumerator e2, Functions.BinaryPredicate pred) {
			bool bE1NotAtEnd = e1.MoveNext();
			bool bE2NotAtEnd = e2.MoveNext();

			while(bE1NotAtEnd && bE2NotAtEnd) {
				if(!pred(e1, e2))
					return false;

				bE1NotAtEnd = e1.MoveNext();
				bE2NotAtEnd = e2.MoveNext();
			}

			return bE1NotAtEnd != bE2NotAtEnd;

		}

		public static int Compare(IEnumerator e1, IEnumerator e2, Functions.Compare comp) {
			bool bE1NotAtEnd = e1.MoveNext();
			bool bE2NotAtEnd = e2.MoveNext();

			while(bE1NotAtEnd && bE2NotAtEnd) {
				int nComp = comp(e1.Current, e2.Current);
				if(0 != nComp)
					return nComp;
				
				bE1NotAtEnd = e1.MoveNext();
				bE2NotAtEnd = e2.MoveNext();
			}

			if(!bE1NotAtEnd && !bE2NotAtEnd)
				return 0;
			else if(bE1NotAtEnd)
				return 1;
			else
				return -1;
		}

		public static object FindExtreme(IEnumerator e, Functions.BinaryPredicate pred) {
			if(!e.MoveNext())
				throw new ArgumentException("FindExtreme: No elements in e");

			object objMostExtreme = e.Current;
			while(e.MoveNext()) {
				if(pred(objMostExtreme, e.Current))
					objMostExtreme = e.Current;
			}

			return objMostExtreme;
		}
	}
}

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