Re: linked list rewrite
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-04-29T04:31:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Neil Conway wrote: > On 28-Apr-04, at 12:12 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I never liked "cell" myself. It is too vague to me. But I see your > > point that list_head you would think returns the head of the list, not > > the first element in the list. > > I'm not sure what you mean: list_head() returns the "head of the list", > which is the first cell in the list. That cell contains a data value > and a pointer to the next cell in the list. Makes sense to me... Oh, I thought cell returned the first data value, not the first-data-and-pointer-to-next-one. Yes, list_head and list_tail seems fine. Why mix "cell" in there? I don't know what a cell is. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073