Editing Linked list (section)

==Language support==

Many [[programming language]]s such as [[Lisp programming language|Lisp]] and [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]] have singly linked lists built in. In many [[functional programming language|functional languages]], these lists are constructed from nodes, each called a ''[[cons]]'' or ''cons cell''. The cons has two fields: the ''[[car and cdr|car]]'', a reference to the data for that node, and the ''[[car and cdr|cdr]]'', a reference to the next node. Although cons cells can be used to build other data structures, this is their primary purpose.

In languages that support [[abstract data type]]s or templates, linked list ADTs or templates are available for building linked lists. In other languages, linked lists are typically built using [[reference (computer science)|reference]]s together with [[record (computer science)|record]]s.