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From: prestonb@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Preston Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: CLEAR in HP 48 programs
Message-ID: <25590103@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.>
Date: 8 Feb 91 23:45:58 GMT
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/ hpcvra.cv.hp.com:comp.sys.handhelds / akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Joseph K. Horn) / 11:40 pm  Feb  7, 1991 /
** HP 48 **

Everybody's saying that using CLEAR in a program is a Bad Thing.

But if you browse through the code in your Casino 48 Card from
Preston Brown Labs (100% user code), you'll see CLEAR used not
just once, but twice.

This implies two things:

(1) If you're in the middle of a 48 task, and your brain needs to
take a momentary break, play MINEHUNT, not CAS48, or you might lose
your stack.

(2) Using CLEAR can't be too terribly naughty.  Even the experts
do it...

-- Joseph K. Horn -- Peripheral Vision, Ltd. -- 

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