expanding list to objects

[Tim Wessman]

Sorry to hijack slightly:

Part of the reason there is no OBJ-> equivalent is that there are no rpn type commands (stack acts as a scratchpad location for "stuff") available for programming. Also, there is only 128 size stack in RPN. There is the ->LIST menu item to make a list, but you can easily have a list with more then 128 items in it. Part of why there was no LIST-> menu item made was the question of "what happens if you have more then 128 items in your list? or doing LIST-> will cause the stack to overflow?"

The thinking was "make a list using ->LIST and then you can store it into a variable and access using accessory functions - eg var(<num>)"

Obviously, people don't like this since the question keeps coming up. However, the other question still remains which is "what should happen if splitting your list results in a stack overflow?"

I've started a thread with a poll to discuss this. http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-6436.html