java for list null,为什么我们可以向java LinkedList添加null元素？

I'm using java.util implementation of a linked list. I was wondering why it allows us to add null elements, and we can even iterate through them?

Doesn't that defeat the point of a linked list, where we have an element that points to the next element, and the conventional implementation of a linked list would break if we added null elements and tried to iterate over it.

解决方案

Looking at the Java 7 sources, LinkedList is implemented as a series of nodes.

private static class Node {

E item;

Node next;

Node prev;

Node(Node prev, E element, Node next) {

this.item = element;

this.next = next;

this.prev = prev;

}

}

Each node has a reference to the previous node and next node, as well as an item. When you insert a null value into the list, you're inserting a node with a null value for item, but the next and prev pointers are non-null.