Ritlists
Ritlists are a family of data structures used to represent ordered collections in a persistent, immutable form. The term is used in some niche programming literature to describe lists that optimize for concatenation and sharing of common suffixes.
Design: Ritlists are built as tree-like structures where elements are stored in small blocks (leaves) and connected
Operations: Basic operations include empty, cons (prepend), head, tail, and length. Concatenation (append) is optimized to
Performance and use: In practice, ritlists are useful in functional languages and compilers for representing sequences
Origin and notes: The concept appears in several theoretical treatments of persistent data structures; there is