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From: akcs.wilsonpm@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Pete M. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Help RPL Tokens
Keywords: rpl, tokens
Message-ID: <285159d4:3003.1comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 91 22:40:12 GMT
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In item 1745, Falco (Andrey Dolgachev) asks:

> Second of all, in the Nickel's Internals List there is mention of
tokens.
> Exactly what are they.  I guess that they are used like the Tokens in
the 
> token-ring network for computers, to control instructions , but I'm not

> sure.

and Derek Nickel replys:

> Falco,
> 
> I picked up the term 'token' from Pete Wilson.  Since it has at least
two
> possable meanings (for a '48), I am not really happy with it.
> 
> 1)  In statements like "save last RPL token":  A token is the
"COMMAND".
> 
> 2)  In statements like "skip next token" or "do next token":  A token
is
> an object (Real Number, Program, Graphic, etc).
> 
> I plan to rename these comments in Voyager V1.0-6
> 
>         Derek S. Nickel

                            Pete Wilson