expression

Calc Software Package for Number Calc

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.

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