> He had the idea that it would be nice to be able to add any object to a > LinkedList, instead of just Link subclasses. (IIRC, 'like you can in Ruby' ;)) > > So we added ValueLink as the common pattern for "A link with an object in > it", which is now the default if you add an object which itself is not a link. > > Makes it much more convenient to actually use a LinkedList, ref. f.ex. the > Stack implementation.
LinkedList is used internally by the process scheduler to handle processes, I don't think that it is ment to be used as a public collection class. For probably all applications it is slower and uses more memory than an OrderedCollection. Lukas -- Lukas Renggli www.lukas-renggli.ch _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
