[Newbies] Linked list structure?

Michael van der Gulik mikevdg at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 02:57:49 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Marcin Tustin <mm3 at zepler.net> wrote:

> Is there - either as standard, or freely downloadable - a datastructure
> that is ordered, has constant-time appends of items, requires no particular
> protocol of the items stored, and can be iterated over (without allocating a
> new structure) starting with the first item added, proceeding to the next
> item added? I.e. has the characteristics of a linked list structure in most
> other datastructure libraries?
>


I believe it's called an OrderedCollection, and it's in every Smalltalk
image you'll find(*).

I recommend reading through Chapter 9 of Squeak by Example (under
"Documentation" on http://www.squeak.org/). It give a good explanation of
Squeak collections and how to use them.

Gulik.

(*) Perhaps except for Craig Latta's 1337-byte image.

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