> On 30 Jun 2015, at 11:16, Guillermo Polito <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Another detail is that LinkedList's design is heavily tied to the VM. Our
> linked list implementation can contain any object that *looks like a link*,
> meaning
> - in the higher level they have to understand the message nextLink and
> nextLink:
> - in the lower level, if it is a linked list used by the VM, the nextLink
> should be the first inst var of the object.
>
> What I mean with this is that we should be careful when changing linked list.
> Changing its internal representation may crash your image ^^.
>
We should really rename it to “ProcessList” and put a comment “do not
touch!!!”, then make a copy and have a Linked List that we can change…
there are many issue tracker entries related to the linked list, as people try
to use it but nobody dares to change it.
Marcus
