Book in the works by Alexander Stepanov

[Manfred_Nowak]

Alix Pexton wrote:

> If I find myself needing to regularly get the nth item from a
> linked list I would start to ask myself why I was using a list in
> the first place. 

What is a "linked list"?

This question is motivated by your stated incompatibility of the "get 
the nth item"-operation with a "linked list". I do not see such an 
incompatibility.

-manfred

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