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From: jsims@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (J. Robert Sims)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: RE:  The APPLY function
Message-ID: <9102241648.AA24383@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 91 16:48:43 GMT
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The apply function takes a variable number of arguments, the others (COMB, %ch)
don't.  The syntax for apply is not

'APPLY('name', {symb...})' 

it's

'APPLY(name, symb1, symb2, ...)'

name is still at the wrong end of the list, but the function is more logical
to understand if the name is at the beginning of the list than the end.

Side note:  if you use 'APPLY(A,B)' where B is defined as {C D}, and evaluate
it, you get a Bad Argument Type error, and { 'A' { C D } } is returned to the
stack.  It looks like apply is given its arguments in the same order that the
command line wants them, but that apply uses something other than ->list when
its arguments are taken off the stack to be passed to the main routine.  I'll
bet that if ->list had a command line equivalent, it would be ->list(size, A,
B, ...) to form the list {A B ...}

Rob
jsims@vuse.vanderbilt.edu