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"The Type Is the Structure"

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Mistaking an abstract data type for one particular structure hides every alternative — one set of operations can be implemented by many representations with different costs.

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A hospital waitlist keeps working when its storage changes underneath, because the operations never changed.

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Swapping representations is routine; the type survives it.