At 11:24 AM 11/3/97 -0500, you wrote: >A stack is FIFO, First in, First out, as in push and pop. A stack of >dishes. > >A queue is LIFO, Last in, First out, like a conveyor belt.( so I >couldn't think of a good practical example, sue me :) > Perhaps as soon as you hit the send button, you realized that in fact a push/pop device (stack of dishes) is LIFO, while a conveyor belt is FIFO. +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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