List Commands Library for 50g

[DavidM]

(12-30-2017 08:59 PM)StephenG1CMZ Wrote:  As I understand the naming problem, SORT and SORT2 cannot be distinguished in a 4-character menu. But SORT2 is desirable because it is more memorable than S2RT.

Would it be practical to have two versions of the names (calling the same routine for implementation)?

S1RT //Selectable from menu
S2RT //Selectable from menu
LONGSORT1 //memorable and descriptive name
LONGSORT2 //memorable and descriptive name
(The LONG prefix avoids seeing SORT and assuming SORT1).

[Not sure how useful that suggestion would be: The Prime has 31-char names]

Menu items on the 50g contain up to the first 5 characters of the ID, and in this particular case we ended up with KSORT for the name to designate that it was a "Key SORT". "KSORT" seemed OK to stand on its own, so no aliases were defined for that particular command.

That could always be changed if needed in some future release, of course. :-)

The actual names for commands and IDs can definitely be longer than 5 chars. I know you can create globals with names up to 127 chars, but I believe library command names are limited to 16 chars.