At Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:42:40 +1000,
Peter Williams wrote:
>
> In my view, a normal stack has new items put on the top and a down arrow
> would symbolize the push action. I.e. pushing an item down onto the top
> of the stack.
In my view, new item is _placed_ on top of the stack. pop removes the
top most item from the stack.
but...
> However, in quilt, the push operation is being applied to a series and
> the new item is being pushed up onto the bottom of the the series so an
> up arrow is the appropriate symbol.
>
> If you look at this in conjunction with the displayed patch list the up
> arrow also makes sense as it depicts the movement of the pushed patch
> from the greyed out unapplied patches at the bottom of the list to the
> applied patches at the top of the list.
>
> Am I the only one who sees this as logical?
Thanks for the clarification. it now seems much logical to me.
# so i guess "the top most patch" is the one not logical then? ;p
--
yashi
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