linkedliststack not longer requires T to be comparable #288
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I had a use case for a stack with a type that's not comparable. I noticed that none of the methods on
linkedliststack.Stack
actually requiresT
to be comparable. It seems the requirement stems from the fact thatlinkedliststack
is based onsinglylinkedlist
which has 3 methods (IndexOf
,Contains
, andSort
) whichStack
doesn't use.This refactors
singlylinkedlist.List
into asinglylinkedlist.SimpleList
which has aT any
generic type. And thensinglylinkedlist.List
embedsSimpleList
and adds those 3 methods. ThenStack
is based on aSimpleList[T any]
and it no longer requires comparable.If you like the general approach here I suspect you'd want additional changes like an interface for simple lists, maybe all stacks no longer require comparable, etc. I wanted to get some early feedback to see if you're on board with this direction and, if so, where you'd want to take this.