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@ -126,23 +126,23 @@ The basic concept of a linked list—the one I came up with for that *DDJ*
column—is straightforward, as shown in Figure 15.1. A head pointer
points to the first node in the list, which points to the next node,
which points to the next, and so on, until the last node in the list is
reached (typically denoted by a **NULL** next-node pointer).
reached (typically denoted by a `NULL` next-node pointer).
Conceptually, nothing could be simpler. From an implementation
perspective, however, there are serious flaws with this model.
The fundamental problem is that the model of Figure 15.1 unnecessarily
complicates link manipulation. In order to delete a node, for example,
you must change the preceding node's **NextNode** pointer to point to
you must change the preceding node's `NextNode` pointer to point to
the following node, as shown in Listing 15.1. (Listing 15.2 is the
header file LLIST.H, which is **\#include**d by all the linked list
header file LLIST.H, which is `#include`d by all the linked list
listings in this chapter.) Easy enough—unless the preceding node happens
to be the head pointer, which doesn't *have* a **NextNode** field,
to be the head pointer, which doesn't *have* a `NextNode` field,
because it's not a node, so Listing 15.1 won't work. Cumbersome special
code and extra information (a pointer to the head of the list) are
required to handle the head-pointer case, as shown in Listing 15.3.
(I'll grant you that if you make the next-node pointer the first field
in the **LinkNode** structure, at offset 0, then you could successfully
point to the head pointer and pretend it was a **LinkNode**
in the `LinkNode` structure, at offset 0, then you could successfully
point to the head pointer and pretend it was a `LinkNode`
structure—but that's an ugly and potentially dangerous trick, and we'll
see a better approach next.)