As pointed out by yuriks [0], it seems the patch authors are interested in looking into a safer solution [1]: > The previous patches in this series illustrate

As pointed out by yuriks [0], it seems the patch authors are interested in looking into a safer solution [1]: > The previous patches in this series illustrate why the List::remove method is really dangerous. I think the real takeaway here is to replace the linked lists with a different data structure without this unsafe footgun, but for now we fix the bugs and add a warning to the docs. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307357 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307357 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307357 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307357