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I have written one simple Android Tetris application. After it I decided to read the dev tutorial. It is time to start.
So, reading about Back Stack, I was surprised to find this in the tutorial:
The back stack abides to the basic “last in, first out” queue mechanism
“Last in and first out” and “queue” I am fully confident these are different things, I mean “stack” and “queue”. Is it a mistake in the tutorial or did the writer want to say something else?
Besides the obvious possibilities in the Queue being double-ended, I think it’s just a (perhaps intentional) mix of English and Programming lingo in that sentence.
When I read that sentence:
I understand the “queue mechanism” in plain English, not programming, as in the definition given by the Merriam-Webster’s (See #3)
Of course, that makes me think that document was proof-read by a non-technical fellow 🙂