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[–] Nobilmantis@feddit.it 8 points 1 year ago

The last element in a queue: :D

[–] bronzing@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can someone explain the joke? I know what stacks are but I don’t get it…

[–] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's the last element, so it has to wait for all the other elements on top of it to be popped in order to be accessed

[–] bronzing@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Oh ok I guess that makes sense. Was it that obvious? 😅

[–] alexcoder04@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea, I meant the last element as in the one at the bottom, but now I see that it‘s a little confusing…

[–] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yea I also thought the last one was the bottom one but then I remembered it was lifo

[–] fullcircle@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

He looks like he's guarding something? A sentinel value in an array-based stack implementation in C or something? I don't know, I'm a bit confused too.

[–] wicked@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it's something about not knowing if the last element is the top of the stack or the bottom of the stack?

[–] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Split the difference, it is the only element in a deque.

[–] nintendiator@feddit.cl 2 points 1 year ago

I alughed at this more than I have any right to.

[–] Sexypink@exploding-heads.com 1 points 1 year ago

The 5th element

[–] stratoscaster@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

LIFO or FIFO hmmm