Why writing a linked list in safe Rust is so damned hard

Re:Why writing a linked list in safe Rust is so damned hard by foota on Thursday February 22, 2018 @07:44PM (#16443109)

I think you mean "The entire problem here is incorrectly assuming that "A has a pointer to B" implies "A owns B"."

Although perhaps I'm wrong.

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Re:Why writing a linked list in safe Rust is so damned hard by mehrdadn on Thursday February 22, 2018 @07:59PM (#16443224)

Not quite what I meant. What I meant was that the hidden assumption is that ownership must be expressed through a direct pointer, leading him to ignore the possibility of something like std::list, which doesn't have a direct pointer to all the nodes.

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Re:Why writing a linked list in safe Rust is so damned hard by foota on Thursday February 22, 2018 @09:25PM (#16443694)

Aw, I see now. Thanks!

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