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- Expression sequences
-
- This is a sequence of statements, of which expression statements
- are the commonest case. Statements are separated with semicolons,
- and the newline character generally ends the sequence. If any
- statement is an expression by itself, or is associated with an
- 'if' statement which is true, then two special things can happen.
- If the sequence is executed at the top level of the calculator,
- then the value of '.' is set to the value of the last expression.
- Also, if an expression is a non-assignment, then the value of the
- expression is automatically printed if its value is not NULL.
- Some operations such as pre-increment and plus-equals are also
- treated as assignments.
-
- Examples of this are the following:
-
- expression sets '.' to prints
- ---------- ----------- ------
- 3+4 7 7
- 2*4; 8+1; fact(3) 6 8, 9, and 6
- x=3^2 9 -
- if (3 < 2) 5; else 6 6 6
- x++ old x -
- print fact(4) - 24
- null() null() -
-
- Variables can be defined at the beginning of an expression sequence.
- This is most useful for local variables, as in the following example,
- which sums the square roots of the first few numbers:
-
- local s, i; s = 0; for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) s += sqrt(i); s
-
- If a return statement is executed in an expression sequence, then
- the result of the expression sequence is the returned value. In
- this case, '.' is set to the value, but nothing is printed.
-