[Coco] A Basic09 Query

[Alex Evans]

I don't remember about Basic09, but I have dealt with situations where
x^2 will fail if x<0. This is because, if you implement it as
exp(y*ln(x)), ln(x) is not real when x<=0.

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:38 AM Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 7:22 AM Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 8/27/19 9:16 AM, Wayne Campbell wrote:
> >
> > >                                                Basic09 is already as
> > large
> > > as a program can get and still run in a 64k space. I think Curtis may be
> > > able to say whether it's a calculation or not.
> >
> > I doubt it is.
> >
>
> Perhaps I should have included "for a programming language". As it stands,
> while you can increase your workspace size to roughly 40k, anything over
> 32k and you can't run the procedure in the workspace or use the debugger.
> You have to pack the code to run it using RunB, and include your own
> debugging code to help track down problems.
>
> As for SQ, wouldn't a PowrOf function have been a better answer?
> >
>
> Since I am not familiar with the term, PowrOf, I can't say. But there
> already is 2 tokens for exponent, ^ and **. They both do the same thing,
> and I always wondered why that duplication was there. So, SQ(10) is the
> same as 10**2 and 10^2. It may be that it's those complicated terms like
> what James used that make the difference?
>
> Wayne
>
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