Perhaps looking at the history of the implementation will shed some light:
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/01389b966ed81fad6e5fac3e98fe46e162645659
On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Keith Brown <keith6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am learning basic data structures and I chose golang since it provide C
> like pointers. While looking at list.go I noticed this in the Element struct
>
>
> type Element {
> next, prev *Element //makes sense. Doubly linked list
> list *List //Why! I don't understand why there is a pointer to List
> Value interface{} //makes sense. Data interface
> }
>
> Source: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/container/list/list.go
>
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