Large 50g program example

[Claudio L.]

(06-20-2015 04:51 AM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  

Quote:Local names are evaluated differently from global names. When a global name is evaluated, the object stored in the corresponding variable is itself evaluated.
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When a local name is evaluated, the object stored in the corresponding variable is returned to the stack but is not evaluated.

- HP 48G Series User's Guide p. 29-17

Thus EVAL is sprinkled all over the program.

Ahhh, I had forgotten about the need to EVAL. Another reason not to do it this way. Last time I did it was on SysRPL, I don't think I ever used local functions in userRPL.

For whoever might be interested, this is one behavior I changed in newRPL, local variables are evaluated just the same as globals, except they are compiled into GETLAM's (actually more like a GETLAMEVAL of some sort), so this technique could actually make more sense as it would be much faster to execute, since the subroutine is not searched by name through a directory.