Lists
Learn how Elixir lists operate as singly linked structures, focusing on efficient access and updates. Understand the implications of their design on recursion and data manipulation to improve your OTP project development.
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One of the most important data structures in Elixir is the list. If you’re thinking about skipping this section because lists are arrays, please stop and read on. In Elixir, lists are singly linked, meaning that each node of a list points to the next node. That’s hugely different than arrays. Arrays make random access cheap, but traversing lists takes ...