last-in, first-out

(definition)

Definition: A policy that the most recently arrived item is processed first. A stack implements this.

See also first-in, first-out.

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Author: PEB

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Entry modified 17 December 2004.
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Paul E. Black, "last-in, first-out", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/lastfirstout.html