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Author dam1784
Recipients Dennis Sweeney, dam1784, eric.smith, python-dev, rhettinger, tim.peters
Date 2022-01-21.12:32:01
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I can post literally hundreds of examples of directed graphs that are traversable in the forward direction. This might be the only one which is *only* traversable backwards.


> As to the meaning of "point to"

Here is one: If I have a pointer in memory, I might represent that with an arrow,
Like: ADDRESS -> VALUE

Or if I have a dictionary I might write:
KEY -> VALUE

But in the graph the edges are directed the opposite way:
KEY <- VALUE

The edges in the graph point in the opposite direction as the underlying memory pointers. This is unexpected and confusing.
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