overflow pdl
[MIT] n. 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 seems to be primarily an MITism; outside MIT this
term would logically be replaced by `overflow
stack', but
the editors have heard no report of the latter term actually being
in use.
