HP 50G help

[DavidM]

(08-07-2016 10:59 PM)Joe Horn Wrote:  

(08-06-2016 09:31 PM)DavidM Wrote:  It's actually very simple: User flags aren't used at all and are completely ignored by any built-in functions or modes on your 50g.

Almost true. The 50g ships with HP's "Equation Library" installed in Port 2, which in my mind makes its functionality "built in". It uses USER flags 60, 61, 62, and 63.

I stand corrected! Thanks for pointing out these exceptions Joe (and the note on page C9 of the AUG, which I'd never noticed before).

I still find the model used by most other system functions for storing settings and data to be better than flag setting; namely, placing the parameters in an object/list and storing the object as a global variable (eg. IOPAR, PRTPAR, PPAR, ZPAR, TOFF, etc.). I will confess, though, that the propensity for these items to collect in HOME was what ultimately led me to using a var hider.