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From: edp@jareth.enet.dec.com (Always mount a scratch monkey.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: hp48sx: variable rename?
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Date: 5 Apr 91 05:22:40 GMT
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In article <298uZ1w163w@ireta.cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>, rob@ireta.cynic.wimsey.bc.ca
(Rob Prior) writes...

>> >	\<< \-> old new \<< old RCL new STO old PURGE \>> \>>
>                            ^^^
> 
>I think it will fall apart right here.  When you call 'old', it will
>evaluate the contents of 'old' on the stack, putting you into the
>directory.

Check the manual, where it explains how different objects are evaluated.  In
particular, global names and local names are evaluated differently.  Evaluation
of a global name causes evaluation of its contents.  Evaluation of a local name
causes the contents to be recalled.


				-- edp (Eric Postpischil)
				"Always mount a scratch monkey."
				edp@jareth.enet.dec.com