Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list

[Emanuel Berg]

tomas wrote:

>> The bad idea comment disregards necessity...
>
> Q "But I /want/ to hit this nail into the wall with a spoon!"
>
> A "You can try. But please, do it in your living room. And
>    oh, with your own spoon"
>
> Programming is somewhere between engineering and craft.
> In these realms, you usually try to think about what tools
> are appropriate for a job.
>
> Singly linked lists are a tool. They are simple,
> lightweight, and appropriate for keeping things in sequence,
> and for adding things at the front. Not at the end.

Yes, but there is, for example, `last'.

Why do we have that if that is O(n) and not O(1) as is `car'?

Why car _and_ last while at the same time `push' _and not_ "push-last"?

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