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Re:Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement by firethief on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @02:01PM (#12798847)
There's a compromise enterprise developers should recognize from CS classes that's almost elegant enough for the kernel crowd: use a sentinel node for the element before the head. The edge case is eliminated, and no more &(*)->; ASCII Cthulhu.
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Re:Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement by zwieback on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @03:31PM (#12799676)
That was my first thought, my basic algorithms book specifically mentions sentinel as a way to eliminate the head boundary condition.

Linus basic point stands although his example isn't very good.

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