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HP Prime Programming: LOCAL Message #1 Posted by Alberto Candel on 6 Oct 2013, 6:52 p.m. Hello, Is there a limit to how many arguments a LOCAL command admits? A program that I am writing has the line LOCAL A, B, C, I, J, K, X , Y, Z; and results in a "bad syntax" message, with the cursor right before the Z. With that line replaced by two LOCAL, as LOCAL A, B, C, I, J, K, X, Y; LOCAL Z; my program runs fine. So it seems that 8 is the maximum number of arguments for LOCAL. However page 533 of the User Guide seems to indicate that LOCAL admits any number of arguments. Thank you. Edited: 6 Oct 2013, 8:46 p.m.

Re: HP Prime Programming: LOCAL Message #2 Posted by Tim Wessman on 6 Oct 2013, 9:30 p.m., in response to message #1 by Alberto Candel Yes, a single call is limited to 8 on one line. Any guess as to the number of bits we had available to use in the "local" command structure? TW Edited: 6 Oct 2013, 9:31 p.m.

Re: HP Prime Programming: LOCAL Message #3 Posted by Han on 6 Oct 2013, 9:43 p.m., in response to message #2 by Tim Wessman It's probably best that way -- too many and source code becomes less legible. And it only gets worse if local variables are also initialized in the same line they are declared.

Re: HP Prime Programming: LOCAL Message #4 Posted by cyrille de Brébisson on 7 Oct 2013, 1:31 a.m., in response to message #1 by Alberto Candel Hello, Function calls (and LOCAL is a function call) are limited to 16 arguements for 'technical reasons'... LOCAL (and other variables defintions) are in fact of rht form: LOCAL(var_name1, var_init_value_1, ... ,va-name_n, var_init_value_n); if you do not specify init values for your variables, 0 is used... this is the reason for the 8 local limitations. the syntax to specify init value is: LOCAL A=1+2, B=2+3; (or alternatively :=) cyrille

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