• Gentoo1337
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      1 year ago

      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

      I think op meant last as in the element on the bottom

    • fullcircle@vlemmy.net
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      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.

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