“state” — when is a countable or uncountable noun?
A stack may be implemented to have bounded
capacity. The implementation is in code on a Linux operating system. If the stack is filled and does not contain enough space to accept this entity, it is considered to be a overflow state. When an item is extracted, it moves to the top of the stack. If it’s there, it’s removed it’s value? A pop either reveals previously concealed items or results in an empty stack, but if the stack is empty it goes into underflow state, which means no items are present in stack to be removed.
Why are the word state used without an article as such? And why isn’t the word state used with an article? The meaning of the word state has to do with a particular condition that something is in at a specific time as in the usage example above that talks about software objects such as stacks that change their state during their lifetime.
“Into underflow state” is just a mistake, however. What are the details of the article in the AN underflow state?
So “state”, in the meaning of “condition and status”, is a countable noun;
period.
You don’t use adjectives before nouns if they describe a type and not an example. I have seen a class before nouns recently.
If a stack is empty, then it goes into an
underflow state The writer here is saying that underflow is a type of state that the stack can be in. In a programming context, this has the implication that the stack can be in one of several well defined states, such as “underflow”, “normal”, “overflow”, “disabled”, for example.
Saying a state is not an application, and is that underflow is not an application.
