Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ziebmef!stevex
From: stevex@ziebmef.uucp (Steve Tibbett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP compatibilty for WB 1.3
Keywords: ARP WB 1.3
Message-ID: <1988Sep25.153034.18670@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 25 Sep 88 19:30:33 GMT
References: <1468@ektools.UUCP>
Reply-To: stevex@ziebmef.UUCP (Steve Tibbett)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access BBS/Unix
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As far as I know, the ARP folks are still planning an ARP release shortly after
1.3 is released (to avoid having to be compatible with a 'Moving Target').

It's almost as if ARP and CBM are competing with each other for our C: 
directories.  The next ARP release will have a really nice EVAL command
that has been written for a good while now (by Ken Salmon).  It's
really flexible, and combined with Execute (also being revised for next ARP),
it's almost a programming language.  (Example:)

  EVAL X=12
  EVAL Y=(6*2)+2
  EVAL X*(Y-1)

will print "156".  It'll handle strings too, I believe.

What did CBM add, out of the blue, to 1.3?  an Eval command that will take
exactly TWO numbers and ONE mathematical operation, and print a result.  It
won't even let you be flexible about spacing ("eval 2*2" prints 2, I believe).

   ...SteveX  (stevex@ziebmef.UUCP)