Re: A86: Parameters (was A86: Personal Intro & Questions (fwd))
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Re: A86: Parameters (was A86: Personal Intro & Questions (fwd))
After May 21 (last AP exam, woohoo!), I'm going to work on my tutorial some more
and also try to get some of the advanced tutorials up...
Dux Gregis wrote:
> Yeah, that's right. I have some source on my web page that's so
> commented it's almost a tutorial.
>
> Matt2000 wrote:
> >
> > Can someone write a tutorial on this parsing stuff? asap is some sort of
> > user token, does that mean you can create your own like TI-OS command? Like
> > beep( could create a beep? Is that way this parameters are mentioned? Like a
> > beep(10, 100) could make a ten second beep with a 1000 hz frequency. What's
> > going on here! :-) Sounds cool. Why would TI creates all these conveniences
> > for programmers yet not document them. Pat seems to document the TI-83
> > fairly nicely, does the TI-83 make more money then the 86 or has pat gotten
> > tired of writing up documentation?
> >
> > Oh, and what is this EOS stuff? I am struggling to keep up with the mailing
> > list...
> >
> > Later,
> > Matt
> >
> > >Great! Nice job. :-)
> > >So we can just use pop and rst 10h then, eh?
> > >
> > >Stephen Hicks wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Ok... I made a quick test program (actually, i modified a test of
> > asapasm by typing in the
> > >> hex in the emu after the code started running) and i found out the
> > following:
> > >>
> > >> When a parameters are passed, the parser starts with the first parameter.
> > It checks if it is
> > >> a real (either variable or literal). If it's a real number, then it
> > pushes the real number
> > >> onto the FPS. If it's not, it checks if it's a variable or a literal.
> > If it is a variable,
> > >> it pushes the variable info (VAT entry) onto the FPS. Otherwise, if it
> > is a literal, it
> > >> creates a temporary $xx variable (which is deleted after the code is
> > executed) and pushes the
> > >> new $xx variable's VAT entry onto the stack. This is done for all but
> > the last parameter,
> > >> which is just loaded into OP1, but not pushed.
> > >>
> > >> Stephen Hicks wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > pushed; if it is a non-real type, the variable name is pushed. I am
> > going to test this
> > >> > today.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Stephen Hicks
> > >> mailto:shicks@mindspring.com
> > >> ICQ:5453914
> > >> IRC/AIM:Kupopo
> > >> Hopemage:http://www.mindspring.com/~shicks/
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