On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Davies, Nathan wrote: > A stack is FIFO, First in, First out, as in push and pop. A stack of > dishes. Yep.. I place all my dirty dishes in one stack and start from the buttom. > > A queue is LIFO, Last in, First out, like a conveyor belt.( so I > couldn't think of a good practical example, sue me :) I need to remember that one next time I'm at the postoffice. Gotta wait on the last person till I enter the queue. Erik Niese-Petersen AKA Quint the Typo Dane +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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