Re: [WP34s] OP-codes Message #15 Posted by fhub on 27 Apr 2012, 2:45 p.m., in response to message #14 by Marcus von Cube, Germany
For me the biggest problems are not things like [alpha] or [print], because these commands aren't used that often. But of course also these could be simplified by just omitting the brackets - a simple alpha or print (evt. prt) would do it, because I don't see that these names appear anywhere else (without []) in the opcode-list. The same would be true for [cmplx] which could just be replaced by cpx (or CPX as it is on the keyboard).
What me annoys most are things I've already mentioned above (at least a few examples), and the ugliest thing for me is [times]!!!
I really don't understand why we can't just use a simple * (as in every other computer language and even in other HP calculators). For division we use / and there's also an [alpha]/, so we could just as well have a simple * for multiplication and [alpha]* for the character * - just as well you could have introduced a [divide] symbol instead of /. And this [times] isn't only annoying to write down, but also to read in a listing!
And here a few more:
Why R[v] and not just RDN (the same for R[^] and RUP)
Why ENTER[^] and not just ENTER
Why y[^x] and not just y^x
Why [cmplx} and not just CPX (or cpx)
Why x[>=]0? and not just x>=0?
Why [->]POL and not just ->POL
Why STO[->] and not just STO->
Why [alpha][->]x and not just alpha->x (or even ATOX)
Why x[<->] and not just x<>
Why LOG[sub-1][sub-0] and not just LOG10
etc.........
I could give you dozens of other examples, but I'm sure you know what I mean.
The problem is that now it's very (if not too) late to make so many changes - it would have been better to think about this (i.e. how complicated these names are when you write a program in an editor) before using such names in the WP34s, now it would be much work to change it again.
Franz
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