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RPN Tutorial Exercise 4
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Either `( 2 , 3 )' or `( 2 SPC 3 )' would have worked, but using both
the comma and the space at once yields:
1: ( ... 2: ( ... 1: (2, ... 2: (2, ... 2: (2, ...
. 1: 2 . 1: (2, ... 1: (2, 3)
. . .
( 2 , SPC 3 )
Joe probably tried to type `TAB DEL' to swap the extra incomplete
object to the top of the stack and delete it. But a feature of Calc
is that DEL on an incomplete object deletes just one component out of
that object, so he had to press DEL twice to finish the job.
2: (2, ... 2: (2, 3) 2: (2, 3) 1: (2, 3)
1: (2, 3) 1: (2, ... 1: ( ... .
. . .
TAB DEL DEL
(As it turns out, deleting the second-to-top stack entry happens often
enough that Calc provides a special key, `M-DEL', to do just that.
`M-DEL' is just like `TAB DEL', except that it doesn't exhibit the
"feature" that tripped poor Joe.)