Free42: Unlimited-length strings and other type extensions

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(01-24-2021 09:25 PM)Guenter Schink Wrote:  Just a thought on ALPHA capabilities. Wouldn't it be nice to have a separate storage structure for strings? Addressable perhaps through pointers within ordinary memory. Exchangeable with the traditional ALPHA register. Recall store and exchange come to mind. Examples

ARCLI x
ARCLI IND 01

ASTOI x
ASTOI 00

AEXCI IND y

This would perhaps also accommodate databases to be build with the aid of matrices.

Günter

Sounds like a proposal to incorporate the HP-41 X-Memory/X-Function module(s) with all the file capabilities and commands. It would also increase the range of 41 programs that can be ported over. Put that in a DM42II and I'd be tempted to buy it.