Simple programming help with the Prime

[Joe Horn]

(06-09-2014 11:26 PM)John R. Graham Wrote:  Thanks. I must've missed that. But in a conversation I had with Han, I think he implied that the argument count was mandatory on all functions that took any arguments.

- John

It's mandatory only on those functions that take a variable number of arguments. If a function always takes n arguments, then n need not be specified.

It's kinda similar to RPL: DUP2 always takes 2 arguments, so you don't need to tell it to take 2 arguments. But DUPN takes n arguments, so you must specify n. In PPL, ABS always takes 1 argument, so you don't need to tell it to take 1 argument. But the MAX command can take many arguments, so MAX should be thought of as MAXN when you're in RPL mode, because you have to specify n.

Hope that helps!