forgot about that. thanks, I will study this. thinking of skipping linked list and going ahead to graphs and trees
On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 8:52 AM, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps looking at the history of the implementation will shed some light: > > https://github.com/golang/go/commit/01389b966ed81fad6e5fac3e98fe46e162645659 > > On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Keith Brown <keith6...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am learning basic data structures and I chose golang since it provide C >> like pointers. While looking at list.go I noticed this in the Element struct >> >> >> type Element { >> next, prev *Element //makes sense. Doubly linked list >> list *List //Why! I don't understand why there is a pointer to List >> Value interface{} //makes sense. Data interface >> } >> >> Source: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/container/list/list.go >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.