created: 07/30/2019

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CHAPTER 133 — Generic Linked List

Chapter Topics:

Preliminary version. Changes are likely.

The previous chapters built linked lists containing primitive type int. A practical application would likely need a linked list that held objects of some type, and perhaps even several linked lists for different types of objects.

Say you needed a linked list of String, a linked list of Integer, and a linked list of MyOwnType. You could write a linked list for each of these types. But that would entail a lot of duplicated work. Better would be to create a generic linked list that could be used with whatever type of object you need. This is what Java generics enables you to do.


QUESTION 1:

(Review: ) What type of object does the following code construct?

ArrayList<String> names = new ArrayList<String>() ;

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