Stack Manipulation
Since the stack is the key means of data manipulation in a stack-oriented programming language, often these languages provide some sort of stack manipulation operators. Commonly provided are dup, to duplicate the element at the top of the stack, exch (or swap), to exchange elements at the top of the stack (the first becomes the second and the second becomes the first), roll, to cyclically permute elements in the stack or on part of the stack, pop (or drop), to discard the element at the top of the stack (push is implicit), and others. These become key in studying procedures.
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