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Purpose

Sometimes the overhead of larger containers isn't justifiable, and so the smaller node of the Singly-Linked List is advantageous.

This is also fundamentally how the [Stack] and [Queue] work, although this List has more overhead than either of those, but provides more features.

Notable Features

Non-Deallocative Traversal

Traversal between nodes of any list type does not remove the previous node, so they behave more like arrays.

Insertion

Unlike the [Stack] or [Queue], or the Array, nodes can be inserted inside the list without requiring a new list.

Queries

Some queries are possible upon this generalized list, and are made available here. Whether a list contains a value, all instances of a certain value, former N values, hinder N values, and so on. All of these queries either return a boolean or another list which can be queried.

Considerations

Use of an iterator is slower than traversal through Node.Ahind, due to the implementation. This is because the list operations largely operate on nodes themselves, not on a cursor, so the cursor heavy iterator has additional overhead. Being simpler, iterators are good for prototyping or when performance doesn't matter, but manual traversal is advised.

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