Fix LinkedList.insert not updating the tail when inserting after the last node - #2220
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…last node insert(value, index) with index equal to the list length linked the new node after the current tail but left this.tail pointing at the old last node, so a following append() overwrote the inserted node and it was lost. Update the tail in that case and add a test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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LinkedList.insert(value, index)corrupts the list when the value is inserted right after the last node (index === length): the new node is linked after the old tail, butthis.tailis not updated. The nextappend()then writes to the old tail'snext, overwriting the inserted node:insertalready handles an index beyond the end by appending and updatingtail(theelsebranch), andindex === 0viaprepend; only this in-between case (walking to the last node and linking after it) missed the tail update. The fix setsthis.tail = newNodewhen the node was linked after the current tail.Added a test for insert-then-append/deleteTail; it fails on
master(1 failed) and passes with the change (21 passed).eslintruns clean via the pre-commit hook.Found by differential fuzzing (random operation sequences on the data structures compared against a plain-array model); the rest of that pass (heaps, priority queue, hash table, Fenwick tree, disjoint set, LRU caches) matched the model.
Written with AI assistance (Claude Code); I reproduced the bug, traced the cause, and ran the tests and linter.