On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Marcin Tustin mm3@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.