inorderright

Inorderright is a term that appears in informal discussions of data structures and algorithms to describe a variant of tree traversal that emphasizes the right side of a node’s subtree. The word is a blend of “inorder” and “right,” but it does not have a single, formal definition in major textbooks or standards. It tends to show up in blog posts, lecture notes, and code comments rather than in peer-reviewed literature.

Definition and usage vary in practice. In common informal usage, inorderright refers to a traversal pattern that processes the right subtree before other parts of the tree, effectively producing an order similar to a reverse in-order traversal (right-root-left) for binary search trees. Some writers use the term to describe a right-first variant that is not strictly equivalent to any standard traversal, leading to ambiguity. Because the term is not standardized, implementations or explanations can differ between authors or projects.

Relation to other concepts: inorderright sits near standard inorder (left-root-right) and reverse inorder (right-root-left) in discussions of tree traversals. It is distinct from generic right-to-left traversals and from other custom orders that might be described as in-order or right-biased.

Applications and notes: When used, it often serves educational purposes to illustrate how changing the order of subtree processing affects output sequences, or to generate descending-order results from a binary search tree. As a neologism, its precise meaning should be clarified in context.

See also: inorder traversal, reverse inorder traversal, binary search tree, tree traversal.