Re: what is a stack

From: Liz (Liz_at_nospam.com)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 04:21:33 GMT

"Roedy Green" <look-on@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:00:32 GMT, "Liz" <Liz@nospam.com> wrote or
> quoted :
>
> >I have seen in various places reference to a 'stack'
> >But what is a stack? Is it a machine specific
> >implementation of something, is it a machine hardware
> >feature/capability
>
> see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/stack.html

It says
A stack is a sort of LIFO (last in first out) queue.

So it is made of objects? What kind of objects, Integer()?

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