wp34s: the strict rpn sorta bugs me

[Thomas Radtke]

(12-19-2013 05:16 PM)eri Wrote:  I don't see what is nasty about an edit register on a machine with a single line display. Do you have an example in mind?

You already came up with one: 1 <enter> 2 <enter> +. RPN users know what that gives and inevitably end up with a miscalculation on a 20b in RPN mode, since they don't see the difference before the operation is done. Identifying that there's a problem is only easily possible if they know the answer anyway.

Why would you want to break a standard? Ask for the 34s to become an RPL calculator. See the difference?

No, there's nothing wrong with an edit register otherwise. It was probably absent since registers were expensive back then. But it is a part of RPL machines, not RPN machines.

Imagine this: What if you're used to chain mode and all of a sudden a calculator in chain mode uses precedence rules? That would be irritating and plain silly.