Sentinel node

In computer programming, a sentinel node is a specifically designated node used with linked lists and trees as a traversal path terminator. This type of node does not hold or reference any data managed by the data structure.

This article is about the computer programming construct. For the body part, see Sentinel lymph node.
Not to be confused with sentinel value.
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