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forrestthewoods on Dec 6, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lis...

Perfect. I almost commented to complain that the “elegant” version is harder to read and understand. This is much much better. Comments are important!

helloycombinat on Dec 7, 2020 [–]

I don't think it's the comment.

Usually variable names in a loop is the object being manipulated not the address of that pointer which means p isn't a pointer to the object which makes it completely confusing.

If the article used pp which is the typical way you describe a pointer to pointer it'd help

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