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overflow pdl n. [MIT] The place where you put things when your PDL is full.

overflow pdl n.

[MIT] The place where you put things when
your PDL is full. If you don't have one and too many things
get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's
memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following
doggerel:


Hey, diddle, diddle
The overflow pdl
To get a little more stack;
If that's not enough
Then you lose it all,
And have to pop all the way back.
-The Great Quux


The term `pdl' (see PDL) seems to be primarily an MITism;
outside MIT this term is replaced by `overflow stack' (but
that wouldn't rhyme with `diddle').

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