Re: Naming curiosity

Lorenzo Villari wrote:


"Chris Dollin" <chris.dollin@xxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio
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Why the /heck/ would you use `void*` not `struct sList*` for `head` and
`prev`? The structure is just as recursive (or not) even if you lie about
the types of the pointers.

In fact is not me, it's an oversemplification of code I've found and
perplexed about.

You said "If I define a linked list this way", not "I found this
code I'm perplexed about".

I normally use the canonical way of defining a linked list.

Good.

Sometimes the head is a data item and sometimes the head is a list
head? IMAO, this is just asking for trouble. At the very least you
could make this type a union, but it's not clear to me why you're
making life so complicated for yourself.

Same as above

Me, too.

It looks like a doubly linked list, not a plain linked list.

Yeah I know the distinction between the two. I meant the term in a general
way. There's a lot of data structure and since I don't know everything, I
thought of the possibility of another one unknown to me...

It's a doubly linked list with obfuscation. (Maybe, if you show us
the unoversimplified code, we'd be able to disperplex you.)

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