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Idiom #128 Breadth-first traversing of a tree

Call a function f on every node of a tree, in breadth-first prefix order

A tree with 6 nodes, rooted at node 1
#include <deque>
#include <functional>
void bfs(Node& root, std::function<void(Node*)> f) {
  std::deque<Node*> node_queue;
  node_queue.push_back(&root);
  while (!node_queue.empty()) {
    Node* const node = node_queue.front();
    node_queue.pop_front();
    f(node);
    for (Node* const child : node->children) {
      node_queue.push_back(child);
    }
  }
}

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