#call-stack on Hacker News

2 stories tagged call-stack, newest first.

Screenshot of dev.arie.bovenberg.net: Why Pendulum had to write the most cursed "+" operator in all of Python

Why Pendulum had to write the most cursed "+" operator in all of Python (dev.arie.bovenberg.net)

37 points by ariebovenberg 20 days ago | 15 comments

Blog post explaining why the Pendulum Python datetime library's + operator inspects the call stack to decide how to add a timedelta, and the design behind it.

python pendulum datetime operator-overloading

Screenshot of devblogs.microsoft.com: Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps

Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps (devblogs.microsoft.com)

429 points by signa11 2 years ago | 195 comments

Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing blog post explaining how early computers performed subroutine calls before they had stacks or heaps.

subroutine-calls call-stack computer-history calling-conventions

#call-stack on Hacker News

Why Pendulum had to write the most cursed "+" operator in all of Python(dev.arie.bovenberg.net)

Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps(devblogs.microsoft.com)

Why Pendulum had to write the most cursed "+" operator in all of Python (dev.arie.bovenberg.net)

Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps (devblogs.microsoft.com)