newRPL - build 1255 released! [updated to 1299]

[Claudio L.]

(04-06-2018 02:00 PM)David Hayden Wrote:  I agree with 3298: this is reinventing core functionality that already exists. It isn't hard to press EVAL after executing the symbolic function. If you don't want to press EVAL, then just define the variables as programs instead of symbolics.[/align]

It's not just pressing EVAL on each result you want to see, it's also storing that result for later use/display, so it's EVAL '...' STO, for each intermediate variable or result.
Spreadsheets wouldn't be so popular if you had to select each cell, evaluate manually every time, and memorize the result or write it down on paper because it's temporary. Even on the 50g (and the Prime as well) people always asked for spreadsheet functionality. This is it, just on a different presentation. I guess you could create a Form with rectangles, call each variable 'A1', 'A2', etc. and work like a spreadsheet. For now, this is the computation engine that drives it. The presentation will be done later.