I wonder why there is the need for a stack class at all?

OrderedCollection is the class designed to do Stacks and Queues
efficiently and portably, see #addFirst:, #addLast:, #first, #last,
#removeFirst, #removeLast.

Lukas

2010/8/26 Bart Gauquie <[email protected]>:
> Hi list,
>
> is there a specific reason Stack is extending from LinkedList, instead of
> using a LinkedList internally?
> To me, it seems that the protocol that LinkedList, SequenceableCollection,
> ... provides is not the protocol you expect from a Stack?
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Bart
>
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