Re: LinkList implementation

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Michael Hwang wrote:
> I solved my problem by simply reversing the direction I added on to
> the LinkList, and therefore the direction I walked through it. I'll
> see if I can't make the LinkList implementation simpler and more
> intuitive. These "gotcha!"'s are a bit annoying.

If you're doing *anything* to the linked list code, the first imperative
is documenting what it currently does.  I'm not interested in improving
it until it's clearly written in <your foreground colour> and <your
background colour> what it is that's being improved.

To get on my high horse, in fact the first and last imperative with lots
of the code is better documentation.  I have wasted days of my life
having to puzzle things out.

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