Ada for Game Developers: Linked Lists

[@aleksandarstanisic1848]

Ada like first programmer? Cool.

[@jere_____]

Thanks for the video! Curiosity: just rolling your own list for learning/fun or maybe a missing feature in the standard library list type? I liked how you went through your process, so this isn't a complaint, I was just curious.

[@GetIntoGameDev]

For sure! So it’s curiousity, but I also want to implement a robin hood hashmap so I can use it and start doing data oriented stuff in Ada

[@FredPraca]

As I'm a Ada type system freak, why Length function returns an Integer instead of a Natural ? :)
I promise I'll try to fix myself on this :D

[@GetIntoGameDev]

I guess the question is, is it possible to have a length of zero, ie just passing in null? Pathological? Yes! But possible!

[@FredPraca]

@@GetIntoGameDev No, I mean Integer may be negative which is impossible whereas Natural are defind as Integer range 0 .. Integer'Last

[@GetIntoGameDev]

Fair enough! I’m used to the natural numbers starting from 1

[@FredPraca]

@@GetIntoGameDev These ones are called Positive in Ada type system