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Subject: Re: Generic Embedded List Nodes
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 20:04:35 -0700
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On 06/18/2016 07:15 PM, Warren wrote:
> On Saturday, 18 June 2016 19:40:31 UTC-4, Jeffrey R. Carter  wrote:
>>
>> Let me make sure I understand this. You have type Emb_Node, and you can string
>> Emb_Nodes together to make a list. 
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> You want to make a composite type with an
>> Emb_Node component:
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> and declare objects of this type:
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> and then be able to string the Node components of all these Outers together into
>> a list, and then treat that list as a list of Outers.
>>
>> Is that correct?
> 
> Essentially, yes.  

That's a terrible idea. It sounds like something that only someone who thinks
doing "some offset calculation from the node address back to
the owning struct/class" is a good idea would think up.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"My legs are gray, my ears are gnarled, my eyes are old and bent."
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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