From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2002-11-30T03:57:28+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR: Stack, Queue alias methods in Array

"Pe?a, Botp" <botp@delmonte-phil.com> wrote:
> [snipped lots of good args by kent and martin]
> 
> maybe we can name methods by the way we access them (and not on its form).
> top/bottom are too generic/ambiguous since we can turn array upside-down
> anytime :-)

true :)
 
> try fifo/lifo. so we have fifo#in, fifo#out, lifo#in, lifo#out...

stack and queue are the more usual name, though. and the method names
should be the usual names for *operations* on stacks and queues. the
problem is, 'peek at the top element' is not (as far as i know, anyway)
technically a valid stack operation - strictly, you should use
'stack.push(a = stack.pop)'.

does any language with a Stack class define this method? the literature
usually refers to the top of a stack, and the head and tail of a queue,
hence my proposed method names.

martin