I'm working on the following problem Reverse Linked List from Leetcode:
Given the head of a singly linked list, reverse the list, and return the reversed list.
Class ListNode defined as follows:
public class ListNode {
int val;
ListNode next;
ListNode() {}
ListNode(int val) { this.val = val; }
ListNode(int val, ListNode next) { this.val = val; this.next = next; }
}
Here is the solution that I came up with.
class Solution {
public ListNode reverseList(ListNode head) {
if (head != null) {
ListNode pre = head;
ListNode cur = head.next;
ListNode temp;
while (cur != null) {
temp = cur.next;
cur.next = pre;
pre = pre.next; //here should be pre = cur; but I don't get it.
cur = temp;
}
head.next = null;
return pre;
} else {
return null;
}
}
}
To make it working inside the while-loop, I need change
pre = pre.next;
with
pre = cur;
But I still don't fully understand it.
After temp = cur.next;, variable pre should still be pointing to cur, right?
So what's wrong here? Can someone explain it in detail?
pre should still be pointing to cur, right? So what's wrong here?
pre = pre.next; // here should be pre = cur; but I don't get it.
When the while-loop terminates, cur points to null, so you need a reference to the previous node pre as a result.
Now let's take a closer look at the statement
pre = pre.next;
During the first step of iteration when pre points to head, this statement would be the same as pre = cur (effectively head.next). That fine.
But starting from the second iteration step, pre.next would point backwards, and that not what you need. You need to advance the reference pre to the tail (which would became a new head), not the opposite.
For that reason, you need pre = cur; instead.
You can get rid of the if-statement in your code and reimplement it like this:
public ListNode reverseList(ListNode head) {
ListNode pre = null;
ListNode cur = head;
while (cur != null) {
ListNode temp = cur.next;
cur.next = pre;
pre = cur;
cur = temp;
}
return pre;
}
main()
public static void main(String[] args) {
ListNode second = new ListNode(3);
ListNode first = new ListNode(2, second);
ListNode head = new ListNode(1, first);
ListNode newHead = reverseList(head);
while (newHead != null) {
System.out.println(newHead.val);
newHead = newHead.next;
}
}
Output:
3
2
1
A link to Online Demo
If you need to reverse singly linked list than I can give you a simpler solution
public class ListReverser {
public static Node<Integer> reverse(Node head) {
Node current = head;
while(current.getNext() != null) {
Node next = current.getNext();
current.setNext(next.getNext());
next.setNext(head);
head = next;
}
return head;
}
}
I wrote a small post on my LinkedIn page with this solution. Feel free to visit: Popular Java interview task: Reverse singly (one-directional) linked list
I have written the following code for reversing a linked list through recursion. However, it didn't work and when I debugged it I could see that the changes in each of the calls weren't being passed to the calls beneath it in the stack. For example, lets say we have linked list 1->2->null. The calls made will be reverse(null,1,null),reverse(1,2,null),then finally reverse(2,null,null). At the final call, as per my code new head should be changed to point at 2 which will then be constant throughout the rest of the stack calls since, I am sending in the reference of newHead to reverse. However, when this call is exited from the stack, then newHead goes back to being null in the previous call which is reverse(1,2,newHead:null). Not sure why this is happening. Can someone please explain to me why this is happening. I am really confused.
Thank you!!
public class ListNode {
int val;
ListNode next;
ListNode() {}
ListNode(int val) { this.val = val; }
ListNode(int val, ListNode next) { this.val = val; this.next = next; }
public static ListNode reverseList(ListNode head) {
if(head==null){
return null;
}
ListNode newHead = head;
reverse(null,head,newHead);
return newHead;
}
private static void reverse(ListNode prev, ListNode curr, ListNode newHead){
if(curr==null){
newHead = prev;
return;
}
reverse(curr,curr.next,newHead);
curr.next = prev;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
ListNode head = new ListNode(1,new ListNode(2));
reverseList(head);
System.out.print(head.val);
}
}
When you pass a variable as argument to a function, like with reverse(head), you cannot expect that function to change the variable's value. head will still reference the same node after the call. The only thing you can expect from this, is that the function will mutate that node and adjust its next property (or any other property), but it cannot make head reference a different node.
When in reverse you assign like newHead = prev; that will only affect the value of newHead, which is a local variable. If you would do newHead.next = null, then yes, the property will change in that object, to which also the caller has access via their own variable. But that is mutation, while in your code you are not mutating, but assigning to a variable.
So make reverse return the new value, and let the caller capture that and assign it to their local variable, ...etc.
public static ListNode reverseList(ListNode head) {
if (head == null) {
return null;
}
ListNode newHead = head;
return reverse(null, head, newHead); // <-- return it
}
private static ListNode reverse(ListNode prev, ListNode curr, ListNode newHead) {
if (curr == null) {
return prev; // <-- return it
}
// Capture the returned node reference
newHead = reverse(curr, curr.next, newHead);
curr.next = prev;
return newHead; // <--- and bubble it up the recursive chain
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
ListNode head = new ListNode(1, new ListNode(2));
head = reverseList(head);
System.out.println(head.val); // 2
}
I have a LinkedList (Own code for the LinkedList) with char's in it. This is the complete list: ['a','b','I','d','R','A','7','p'].
I am trying to write a method which will deleting all characters that is NOT a upper case letter. After running the method, the LinkedList should look like this ['I','R','A'].
But after running my code I get the same list as return, this list: ['a','b','I','d','R','A','7','p'].
Here is my code for the method:
public static ListNode copyUpperCase(ListNode head) {
ListNode ptr = head;
while(!isEmpty(ptr.next)){
if(!Character.isUpperCase(ptr.element)){
ptr = ptr.next.next;
//System.out.println(ptr.element);
}
ptr = ptr.next;
}
return head;
}
Here is isEmpty():
public static boolean isEmpty(ListNode l) {
if ( l == null )
throw new ListsException("Lists: null passed to isEmpty");
return l.next == null;
}
Here is ListNode:
public class ListNode {
public char element;
public ListNode next;
}
I can see that the search part is working, but I can't get the deleting the node part right, any suggestions?
public static ListNode copyUpperCase(ListNode head) {
ListNode ptr = head;
while(!isEmpty(ptr.next)){
if(!Character.isUpperCase(ptr.element)){
ptr.next = ptr.next.next;
//System.out.println(ptr.element);
}
ptr = ptr.next;
}
return head;
}
You need to "CHANGE" the list, so you just missed the assignment to the element and not the the local variable
THIS code will not work however, as this just assign to the next element, without looking if next element actully is a good one, and then skips to that one
Edit: full working code
class ListNode {
public ListNode(char element,ListNode next ) {
this.element = element;
this.next = next;
}
public char element;
public ListNode next;
void print() {
System.out.print(this.element+",");
if(this.next != null) {
this.next.print();
}
else {
System.out.println("");
}
}
}
public class main {
//Imo you should only check if this elem is a null one, as a null means empty, a null on next only means that it's the last elem, but will still contain data
public static boolean isEmpty(ListNode l) {
return l == null;
}
public static ListNode getNextUpper(ListNode head) {
while(!isEmpty(head)){
if(Character.isUpperCase(head.element)) {
return head;
}
head = head.next;
}
return null;
}
public static ListNode copyUpperCase(ListNode head) {
ListNode newhead = getNextUpper(head);
ListNode temp = newhead;
while(!isEmpty(temp)){
temp.next = getNextUpper(temp.next);
temp = temp.next;
}
return newhead;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
ListNode t = new ListNode('a' , new ListNode('b' , new ListNode('I', new ListNode('d', new ListNode('R', new ListNode('A', new ListNode('7', new ListNode('p',null))))))));
t.print();
ListNode newt = copyUpperCase(t);
newt.print();
}
}
ptr is a local variable, so
ptr = ptr.next.next;
doesn't modify your linked list.
You should modify ptr.next instead. Besides that, you may have to modify head, if the original head doesn't refer to an upper case letter.
Something like this should work :
// find the first valid (upper case) element and set head to refer to it
while (!Character.isUpperCase(head.element) && head != null)
head = head.next;
ListNode ptr = head;
if (ptr != null)
// eliminate all non-upper case elements
while(!isEmpty(ptr.next)){
if(!Character.isUpperCase(ptr.next.element)){
ptr.next = ptr.next.next;
}
ptr = ptr.next;
}
}
return head;
I have been working on a Java project for a class for a while now. It is an implementation of a linked list (here called AddressList, containing simple nodes called ListNode). The catch is that everything would have to be done with recursive algorithms. I was able to do everything fine sans one method: public AddressList reverse()
ListNode:
public class ListNode{
public String data;
public ListNode next;
}
Right now my reverse function just calls a helper function that takes an argument to allow recursion.
public AddressList reverse(){
return new AddressList(this.reverse(this.head));
}
With my helper function having the signature of private ListNode reverse(ListNode current).
At the moment, I have it working iteratively using a stack, but this is not what the specification requires. I had found an algorithm in C that recursively reversed and converted it to Java code by hand, and it worked, but I had no understanding of it.
Edit: Nevermind, I figured it out in the meantime.
private AddressList reverse(ListNode current, AddressList reversedList){
if(current == null)
return reversedList;
reversedList.addToFront(current.getData());
return this.reverse(current.getNext(), reversedList);
}
While I'm here, does anyone see any problems with this route?
There's code in one reply that spells it out, but you might find it easier to start from the bottom up, by asking and answering tiny questions (this is the approach in The Little Lisper):
What is the reverse of null (the empty list)? null.
What is the reverse of a one element list? the element.
What is the reverse of an n element list? the reverse of the rest of the list followed by the first element.
public ListNode Reverse(ListNode list)
{
if (list == null) return null; // first question
if (list.next == null) return list; // second question
// third question - in Lisp this is easy, but we don't have cons
// so we grab the second element (which will be the last after we reverse it)
ListNode secondElem = list.next;
// bug fix - need to unlink list from the rest or you will get a cycle
list.next = null;
// then we reverse everything from the second element on
ListNode reverseRest = Reverse(secondElem);
// then we join the two lists
secondElem.next = list;
return reverseRest;
}
I was asked this question at an interview and was annoyed that I fumbled with it since I was a little nervous.
This should reverse a singly linked list, called with reverse(head,NULL);
so if this were your list:
1->2->3->4->5->null
it would become:
5->4->3->2->1->null
//Takes as parameters a node in a linked list, and p, the previous node in that list
//returns the head of the new list
Node reverse(Node n,Node p){
if(n==null) return null;
if(n.next==null){ //if this is the end of the list, then this is the new head
n.next=p;
return n;
}
Node r=reverse(n.next,n); //call reverse for the next node,
//using yourself as the previous node
n.next=p; //Set your next node to be the previous node
return r; //Return the head of the new list
}
edit: ive done like 6 edits on this, showing that it's still a little tricky for me lol
I got half way through (till null, and one node as suggested by plinth), but lost track after making recursive call. However, after reading the post by plinth, here is what I came up with:
Node reverse(Node head) {
// if head is null or only one node, it's reverse of itself.
if ( (head==null) || (head.next == null) ) return head;
// reverse the sub-list leaving the head node.
Node reverse = reverse(head.next);
// head.next still points to the last element of reversed sub-list.
// so move the head to end.
head.next.next = head;
// point last node to nil, (get rid of cycles)
head.next = null;
return reverse;
}
Here's yet another recursive solution. It has less code within the recursive function than some of the others, so it might be a little faster. This is C# but I believe Java would be very similar.
class Node<T>
{
Node<T> next;
public T data;
}
class LinkedList<T>
{
Node<T> head = null;
public void Reverse()
{
if (head != null)
head = RecursiveReverse(null, head);
}
private Node<T> RecursiveReverse(Node<T> prev, Node<T> curr)
{
Node<T> next = curr.next;
curr.next = prev;
return (next == null) ? curr : RecursiveReverse(curr, next);
}
}
The algo will need to work on the following model,
keep track of the head
Recurse till end of linklist
Reverse linkage
Structure:
Head
|
1-->2-->3-->4-->N-->null
null-->1-->2-->3-->4-->N<--null
null-->1-->2-->3-->4<--N<--null
null-->1-->2-->3<--4<--N<--null
null-->1-->2<--3<--4<--N<--null
null-->1<--2<--3<--4<--N<--null
null<--1<--2<--3<--4<--N
|
Head
Code:
public ListNode reverse(ListNode toBeNextNode, ListNode currentNode)
{
ListNode currentHead = currentNode; // keep track of the head
if ((currentNode==null ||currentNode.next==null )&& toBeNextNode ==null)return currentHead; // ignore for size 0 & 1
if (currentNode.next!=null)currentHead = reverse(currentNode, currentNode.next); // travarse till end recursively
currentNode.next = toBeNextNode; // reverse link
return currentHead;
}
Output:
head-->12345
head-->54321
I think this is more cleaner solution, which resembles LISP
// Example:
// reverse0(1->2->3, null) =>
// reverse0(2->3, 1) =>
// reverse0(3, 2->1) => reverse0(null, 3->2->1)
// once the first argument is null, return the second arg
// which is nothing but the reveresed list.
Link reverse0(Link f, Link n) {
if (f != null) {
Link t = new Link(f.data1, f.data2);
t.nextLink = n;
f = f.nextLink; // assuming first had n elements before,
// now it has (n-1) elements
reverse0(f, t);
}
return n;
}
I know this is an old post, but most of the answers are not tail recursive i.e. they do some operations after returning from the recursive call, and hence not the most efficient.
Here is a tail recursive version:
public Node reverse(Node previous, Node current) {
if(previous == null)
return null;
if(previous.equals(head))
previous.setNext(null);
if(current == null) { // end of list
head = previous;
return head;
} else {
Node temp = current.getNext();
current.setNext(previous);
reverse(current, temp);
}
return null; //should never reach here.
}
Call with:
Node newHead = reverse(head, head.getNext());
void reverse(node1,node2){
if(node1.next!=null)
reverse(node1.next,node1);
node1.next=node2;
}
call this method as reverse(start,null);
public Node reverseListRecursive(Node curr)
{
if(curr == null){//Base case
return head;
}
else{
(reverseListRecursive(curr.next)).next = (curr);
}
return curr;
}
public void reverse() {
head = reverseNodes(null, head);
}
private Node reverseNodes(Node prevNode, Node currentNode) {
if (currentNode == null)
return prevNode;
Node nextNode = currentNode.next;
currentNode.next = prevNode;
return reverseNodes(currentNode, nextNode);
}
Reverse by recursive algo.
public ListNode reverse(ListNode head) {
if (head == null || head.next == null) return head;
ListNode rHead = reverse(head.next);
rHead.next = head;
head = null;
return rHead;
}
By iterative
public ListNode reverse(ListNode head) {
if (head == null || head.next == null) return head;
ListNode prev = null;
ListNode cur = head
ListNode next = head.next;
while (next != null) {
cur.next = prev;
prev = cur;
cur = next;
next = next.next;
}
return cur;
}
public static ListNode recRev(ListNode curr){
if(curr.next == null){
return curr;
}
ListNode head = recRev(curr.next);
curr.next.next = curr;
curr.next = null;
// propogate the head value
return head;
}
This solution demonstrates that no arguments are required.
/**
* Reverse the list
* #return reference to the new list head
*/
public LinkNode reverse() {
if (next == null) {
return this; // Return the old tail of the list as the new head
}
LinkNode oldTail = next.reverse(); // Recurse to find the old tail
next.next = this; // The old next node now points back to this node
next = null; // Make sure old head has no next
return oldTail; // Return the old tail all the way back to the top
}
Here is the supporting code, to demonstrate that this works:
public class LinkNode {
private char name;
private LinkNode next;
/**
* Return a linked list of nodes, whose names are characters from the given string
* #param str node names
*/
public LinkNode(String str) {
if ((str == null) || (str.length() == 0)) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("LinkNode constructor arg: " + str);
}
name = str.charAt(0);
if (str.length() > 1) {
next = new LinkNode(str.substring(1));
}
}
public String toString() {
return name + ((next == null) ? "" : next.toString());
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
LinkNode head = new LinkNode("abc");
System.out.println(head);
System.out.println(head.reverse());
}
}
Here is a simple iterative approach:
public static Node reverse(Node root) {
if (root == null || root.next == null) {
return root;
}
Node curr, prev, next;
curr = root; prev = next = null;
while (curr != null) {
next = curr.next;
curr.next = prev;
prev = curr;
curr = next;
}
return prev;
}
And here is a recursive approach:
public static Node reverseR(Node node) {
if (node == null || node.next == null) {
return node;
}
Node next = node.next;
node.next = null;
Node remaining = reverseR(next);
next.next = node;
return remaining;
}
As Java is always pass-by-value, to recursively reverse a linked list in Java, make sure to return the "new head"(the head node after reversion) at the end of the recursion.
static ListNode reverseR(ListNode head) {
if (head == null || head.next == null) {
return head;
}
ListNode first = head;
ListNode rest = head.next;
// reverse the rest of the list recursively
head = reverseR(rest);
// fix the first node after recursion
first.next.next = first;
first.next = null;
return head;
}
PointZeroTwo has got elegant answer & the same in Java ...
public void reverseList(){
if(head!=null){
head = reverseListNodes(null , head);
}
}
private Node reverseListNodes(Node parent , Node child ){
Node next = child.next;
child.next = parent;
return (next==null)?child:reverseListNodes(child, next);
}
public class Singlelinkedlist {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Elem list = new Elem();
Reverse(list); //list is populate some where or some how
}
//this is the part you should be concerned with the function/Method has only 3 lines
public static void Reverse(Elem e){
if (e!=null)
if(e.next !=null )
Reverse(e.next);
//System.out.println(e.data);
}
}
class Elem {
public Elem next; // Link to next element in the list.
public String data; // Reference to the data.
}
public Node reverseRec(Node prev, Node curr) {
if (curr == null) return null;
if (curr.next == null) {
curr.next = prev;
return curr;
} else {
Node temp = curr.next;
curr.next = prev;
return reverseRec(curr, temp);
}
}
call using: head = reverseRec(null, head);
What other guys done , in other post is a game of content, what i did is a game of linkedlist, it reverse the LinkedList's member not reverse of a Value of members.
Public LinkedList reverse(LinkedList List)
{
if(List == null)
return null;
if(List.next() == null)
return List;
LinkedList temp = this.reverse( List.next() );
return temp.setNext( List );
}
package com.mypackage;
class list{
node first;
node last;
list(){
first=null;
last=null;
}
/*returns true if first is null*/
public boolean isEmpty(){
return first==null;
}
/*Method for insertion*/
public void insert(int value){
if(isEmpty()){
first=last=new node(value);
last.next=null;
}
else{
node temp=new node(value);
last.next=temp;
last=temp;
last.next=null;
}
}
/*simple traversal from beginning*/
public void traverse(){
node t=first;
while(!isEmpty() && t!=null){
t.printval();
t= t.next;
}
}
/*static method for creating a reversed linked list*/
public static void reverse(node n,list l1){
if(n.next!=null)
reverse(n.next,l1);/*will traverse to the very end*/
l1.insert(n.value);/*every stack frame will do insertion now*/
}
/*private inner class node*/
private class node{
int value;
node next;
node(int value){
this.value=value;
}
void printval(){
System.out.print(value+" ");
}
}
}
The solution is:
package basic;
import custom.ds.nodes.Node;
public class RevLinkedList {
private static Node<Integer> first = null;
public static void main(String[] args) {
Node<Integer> f = new Node<Integer>();
Node<Integer> s = new Node<Integer>();
Node<Integer> t = new Node<Integer>();
Node<Integer> fo = new Node<Integer>();
f.setNext(s);
s.setNext(t);
t.setNext(fo);
fo.setNext(null);
f.setItem(1);
s.setItem(2);
t.setItem(3);
fo.setItem(4);
Node<Integer> curr = f;
display(curr);
revLL(null, f);
display(first);
}
public static void display(Node<Integer> curr) {
while (curr.getNext() != null) {
System.out.println(curr.getItem());
System.out.println(curr.getNext());
curr = curr.getNext();
}
}
public static void revLL(Node<Integer> pn, Node<Integer> cn) {
while (cn.getNext() != null) {
revLL(cn, cn.getNext());
break;
}
if (cn.getNext() == null) {
first = cn;
}
cn.setNext(pn);
}
}
static void reverseList(){
if(head!=null||head.next!=null){
ListNode tail=head;//head points to tail
ListNode Second=head.next;
ListNode Third=Second.next;
tail.next=null;//tail previous head is poiniting null
Second.next=tail;
ListNode current=Third;
ListNode prev=Second;
if(Third.next!=null){
while(current!=null){
ListNode next=current.next;
current.next=prev;
prev=current;
current=next;
}
}
head=prev;//new head
}
}
class ListNode{
public int data;
public ListNode next;
public int getData() {
return data;
}
public ListNode(int data) {
super();
this.data = data;
this.next=null;
}
public ListNode(int data, ListNode next) {
super();
this.data = data;
this.next = next;
}
public void setData(int data) {
this.data = data;
}
public ListNode getNext() {
return next;
}
public void setNext(ListNode next) {
this.next = next;
}
}
private Node ReverseList(Node current, Node previous)
{
if (current == null) return null;
Node originalNext = current.next;
current.next = previous;
if (originalNext == null) return current;
return ReverseList(originalNext, current);
}
//this function reverses the linked list
public Node reverseList(Node p) {
if(head == null){
return null;
}
//make the last node as head
if(p.next == null){
head.next = null;
head = p;
return p;
}
//traverse to the last node, then reverse the pointers by assigning the 2nd last node to last node and so on..
return reverseList(p.next).next = p;
}
//Recursive solution
class SLL
{
int data;
SLL next;
}
SLL reverse(SLL head)
{
//base case - 0 or 1 elements
if(head == null || head.next == null) return head;
SLL temp = reverse(head.next);
head.next.next = head;
head.next = null;
return temp;
}
Inspired by an article discussing immutable implementations of recursive data structures I put an alternate solution together using Swift.
The leading answer documents solution by highlighting the following topics:
What is the reverse of nil (the empty list)?
Does not matter here, because we have nil protection in Swift.
What is the reverse of a one element list?
The element itself
What is the reverse of an n element list?
The reverse of the second element on followed by the first element.
I have called these out where applicable in the solution below.
/**
Node is a class that stores an arbitrary value of generic type T
and a pointer to another Node of the same time. This is a recursive
data structure representative of a member of a unidirectional linked
list.
*/
public class Node<T> {
public let value: T
public let next: Node<T>?
public init(value: T, next: Node<T>?) {
self.value = value
self.next = next
}
public func reversedList() -> Node<T> {
if let next = self.next {
// 3. The reverse of the second element on followed by the first element.
return next.reversedList() + value
} else {
// 2. Reverse of a one element list is itself
return self
}
}
}
/**
#return Returns a newly created Node consisting of the lhs list appended with rhs value.
*/
public func +<T>(lhs: Node<T>, rhs: T) -> Node<T> {
let tail: Node<T>?
if let next = lhs.next {
// The new tail is created recursively, as long as there is a next node.
tail = next + rhs
} else {
// If there is not a next node, create a new tail node to append
tail = Node<T>(value: rhs, next: nil)
}
// Return a newly created Node consisting of the lhs list appended with rhs value.
return Node<T>(value: lhs.value, next: tail)
}
Reversing the linked list using recursion. The idea is adjusting the links by reversing the links.
public ListNode reverseR(ListNode p) {
//Base condition, Once you reach the last node,return p
if (p == null || p.next == null) {
return p;
}
//Go on making the recursive call till reach the last node,now head points to the last node
ListNode head = reverseR(p.next); //Head points to the last node
//Here, p points to the last but one node(previous node), q points to the last node. Then next next step is to adjust the links
ListNode q = p.next;
//Last node link points to the P (last but one node)
q.next = p;
//Set the last but node (previous node) next to null
p.next = null;
return head; //Head points to the last node
}
public void reverseLinkedList(Node node){
if(node==null){
return;
}
reverseLinkedList(node.next);
Node temp = node.next;
node.next=node.prev;
node.prev=temp;
return;
}
public void reverse(){
if(isEmpty()){
return;
}
Node<T> revHead = new Node<T>();
this.reverse(head.next, revHead);
this.head = revHead;
}
private Node<T> reverse(Node<T> node, Node<T> revHead){
if(node.next == null){
revHead.next = node;
return node;
}
Node<T> reverse = this.reverse(node.next, revHead);
reverse.next = node;
node.next = null;
return node;
}
Here is a reference if someone is looking for Scala implementation:
scala> import scala.collection.mutable.LinkedList
import scala.collection.mutable.LinkedList
scala> def reverseLinkedList[A](ll: LinkedList[A]): LinkedList[A] =
ll.foldLeft(LinkedList.empty[A])((accumulator, nextElement) => nextElement +: accumulator)
reverseLinkedList: [A](ll: scala.collection.mutable.LinkedList[A])scala.collection.mutable.LinkedList[A]
scala> reverseLinkedList(LinkedList("a", "b", "c"))
res0: scala.collection.mutable.LinkedList[java.lang.String] = LinkedList(c, b, a)
scala> reverseLinkedList(LinkedList("1", "2", "3"))
res1: scala.collection.mutable.LinkedList[java.lang.String] = LinkedList(3, 2, 1)