There doesn't seem to be a LinkedList in the Kotli...
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v79
09/17/2018, 8:38 AMThere doesn't seem to be a LinkedList in the Kotlin std library - any obvious alternatives?
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spand
09/17/2018, 8:42 AMWhy isnt an ArrayList good enough ?
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marstran
09/17/2018, 8:45 AMIf you're on the JVM, then you can just use
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v79
09/17/2018, 8:45 AMBecause I want the links between previous and next items without referring to array positions.
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spand
09/17/2018, 8:50 AMKotlins
ListListIteratorspand
09/17/2018, 8:50 AMI am not sure how you get previous / next without using that
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robin
09/17/2018, 9:29 AMKotlin doesn't have any data structures in its stdlib, only convenience functions that use the default java data structures. So you'll be perfectly fine just using the standard java LinkedList.
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karelpeeters
09/17/2018, 10:06 AMMultiplatform though.
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v79
09/17/2018, 10:14 AMHaving done some experiments, I'm pretty certain LinkedList isn't the right structure for my dataset either. Maybe a SortedSet... Or maybe I need to rethink the design!
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karelpeeters
09/17/2018, 10:15 AMThat often ends up being the case!
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