Adding Table of constant Units? how?

[tom234]

(09-04-2016 06:50 PM)StephenG1CMZ Wrote:  If you need your constants to include units rather than just numbers, there is a complication: CONVERT's second parameter must be 1 unit, not 0.5 unit (using 0.5 in this example to convert between HP AU and my own AU, to make the output value obviously different.

Code:



 EXPORT MYAU:=0.5;//MULTIPLIER TO CONVERT BETWEEN HP AU AND MY AU
 EXPORT MYAUinAU:=0.5*1_au;//DOESNT WORK
 EXPORT LY()
 BEGIN
  PRINT();
  PRINT("LYR in HP AU: "+CONVERT(1_lyr,1_au));
  PRINT("LYR in MY AU: "+MYAU*CONVERT(1_lyr,1_au));
  PRINT("LYR NOT in my AU: "+CONVERT(1_lyr,MYAUinAU));//users may not expect this
 END;

To make Using your own units possible you would want CONVERT to notice that MYAUinAU was a value other than 1 unit and modify the number returned accordingly.

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with all due respect to all the programmers C++, Perl, Ruby are a lot easier and more powerful a language than HP C. its making me second guess just using an app on my iPhone to do this calculator thing.
Is there a code or language PDF for HP C(language)????????