35s label-less programming - so close yet so far

[David Hayden]

[ Edited to say GTO/XEQ lines are NOT adjusted properly. Dang - the one word I skipped is the key to the entire post! Thanks ijabbott for pointing out my error.]

The 35s GTO and XEQ instruction lets you go to any line number within a label. Whenever you insert or delete a program line, the calculator is supposed to adjust the GTO & XEQ instructions accordingly. If you delete the target of a GTO/XEQ, the GTO/XEQ remains unchanged, meaning that the new target is the line after the deleted line, which now occupies the deleted line's former spot.

If this worked properly, then label-less programming would be easy and pretty cool:

• write your code using labels A-Z as you would on many other RPN calcs.
• When you're program works, just delete the LBL lines! GTO/XEQ instructions that went to the label would now go to the instruction that followed it.
  

Alas, there's a known bug: if you delete a LBL line, the GTO/XEQ lines are not adjusted properly.

Sigh. This would have been very cool if it worked right. You could just reserve a bunch of labels for development work and delete them when your program is okay.

So close, yet so far.

Dave