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There are several uses of punctuation in addition to those previously
discussed. All punctuations are summarized below.
- = separate result field from arguments and functions
or rename a result as in s1 = 10000 = 1001 base.
-
continue a command to a second line - " " quotes to enclose a comment field
- ? to query and reset constants associated with
previous operator
- TO fill in all arguments between the preceeding number and the
following one
-
repeat the last number used as the
argument in a command. This
number may be incremented by n using
+n or decremented by n using
-n. - : collate groups of arguments on the command line.
Each group must
contain the same number of arguments.
When this operator precedes
a function of type n
1 or n
n, the number
of arguments upon which the function will operate is given by the
number of argument groups. The number of times the function will repeat
is given by the size of the groups. - BY N reinterpret argument list into groups of size N.
The number
of arguments must be divisible by N.
When this operator precedes
a function of type n
1 or n
n, the number
of arguments upon which the function operates is given by N. The number
of times the function is repeated is given by the size of the argument
list divided by N. - ; command string delimeter. This operator can be used to
enter several command strings on one line. The command strings will be
executed sequentially as if these had been entered one at a time.
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