Can't reproduce HP-28 operations as objects example

[Giuseppe Donnini]

(04-17-2020 09:27 PM)Orome Wrote:  the HP 48 Insights book replaces this confusing example with a better one:

1 2 {+} HEAD

with no need for the distracting switch to alpha mode.

...clearly implies that it was the replacement of LIST\-> DROP with HEAD that obviated the need for switching to ALPHA mode (this is what I referred to as "the problem at hand", since you called it "distracting").

But this is not true at all. It is due to the new feature of the '48 (both of the S and of the G models) to activate ALPHA, or PRG, mode automatically, as soon as you begin to type in a list.

Take a look at page 29 of the SX version of "Insights", and you will see that no switching is necessary, even though HEAD is not available.