In a further attempt to speed up text-based games, I'm working to add some code for Correlation to compute arguments inside of ln( and e^(.  This will happen only if your arguments are simple, otherwise Ti-Basic will compute the arguments.

By default I'll allowing addition, subtraction, multiplication, variables, abs( substrings, parenthesis, Ans, L1-L6, Martices, strings and temporary strings.  For instance, this would be totally valid:

Output(2M,17-Ans,L1(Ans

I know that these appear a lot in games.  However, is there anything else that you guys use A LOT?  Please vote, and give suggestions of your own if you think of them.

I forgot to mention, by the way, I'm not going to add int( because all parameters except strings will be turned into integers anyways.

I've actually never heard of times when people would need the number of digits for Output( and Text(.  Can you enlighten me, please?

Just a reminder, you can still use ln( and e^( if you have really weird functions, they just won't be super-duper quick.

Centering text, right justifying text. If it's a number you need to know how far to place it out from the side.

Yes, exactly I also use it when I am making math programs that output results in a more pretty way

Cool, that will be great! As an example, if I know a number is an integer and I want to right justify it so the last number is in the ninth column:
Output(1,iPart(10-log(Ans)),Ans


What about just sending the entire argument string to the OS to evaluate?

The OS does it by default, but it's too slow.  I'm making this a faster one, since most people don't use Anova( or Sort( or other complex ones like that

Quote from: Deep Thought on April 28, 2011, 08:33:00 pm

What about just sending the entire argument string to the OS to evaluate?

The OS does it by default, but it's too slow.  I'm making this a faster one, since most people don't use Anova( or Sort( or other complex ones like that

Anova(? I don't even have that o.O

For infix parsing, convert to postfix first. It makes your life SO much easier. But left-to-right parsing would be even easier than that, I suppose...