(data structure)
Definition: A collection of items accessible one after another beginning at the head and ending at the tail.
Generalization (I am a kind of ...)
bag.
Specialization (... is a kind of me.)
linked list, doubly linked list, circular list, self-organizing list.
Note: A list can be seen as an ordered bag.
Author: PEB
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Entry modified Mon Jan 3 12:21:47 2005.
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Paul E. Black, "list", from
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures, Paul E. Black, ed.,
NIST.
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