Tfw you realize that your brain has the alphabet stored as a linked list
Tfw you realize that your brain has the alphabet stored as a linked list
is it really that necessary to index it by number
It’d help. I’d like to be able to know if S came before Q without having to start at the beginning and sing my way through until I hit one.
that’s even worse, you want a letter -> number mapping!
really you just need to store them in a doubly linked list, to allow backwards traversal
Worse yet, I still have the goddamn cardinal directions stored as a linked list (N-E-S-W). Remembering which way is “West” is 4 times harder that “North”
and yet, when I learned the words for them in Japanese, that problem went away, but only in Japanese! My brain stored nishi, higashi, minami, and kita in a much better data structure and I now I can access them in constant time.
I get East and West mixed up, but never North and South.
When I moved to LA after spending my life in suburban Philadelphia and upstate New York, I realized that I’d been storing “West” as “inland” and “East” as “coastward” and it fucked me up