Now, now, children.  It's clear to this bystander that Reinier's 'tracker
object' is the same as Kevin's 'tail object'.  It's also clear that there's
nobody on this list/group who doesn't know what a linked list is so there's
no real need to accuse each other of that.

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]>wrote:

> No, _THIS_ post is a strawman post. You jump from cliche to cliche without
> explaining how these cliches are in any way relevant to TCO. What the heck
> does the '9 pregnant women can't produce a baby in 1 month' schtick have to
> do with TCO? What does 'goto considered harmful' have to do with any of
> this? Neither scala nor java has gotos, so.... huh?!?????
>
> You're just naming random programming koans here.
>
> On Monday, July 23, 2012 9:27:33 AM UTC+2, KWright wrote:
>>
>>
>> p.s. A immutable linked-list is just a series of "cells", each one
>> holding a value and the rest of the list.  All except the last one.  Unless
>> your mention of "tracker objects" is simply a synonym for these tail
>> objects, then I suspect you may have misunderstood how the structure is
>> implemented.
>>
>>
> Have a look at the implementation of java.util.LinkedList. 1 tracker
> object per cell.
>
> I suspect _you_ may have misunderstood how the structure is implemented.
>
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