> > Please hold off on this change. It would just add unnecessary complexity to > the LinkedList class. Node is a private inner class and will never be > serialized independently of a LinkedList, so the fact that it implicitly > serializes the outer class as well is not an issue. > > But unless I'm wrong (which is always possible), Node should be made static anyway, because it doesn't reference any member variables of the containing class, in which case you might as well save the extra reference to the outer instance, no?
-T
