Re:UI is hell: four-function calculators
by ropejumper on Friday January 24, 2025 @04:23AM
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They meant that the implementation of a four-function calculator only needs a few fixed variables rather than a stack.
you can easily add variables to your rpn calculator. For example ">x" pops the top of the stack into the variable x, and "<x" pushes the value of x to the stack.
You can also interpret parentheses as whitespace to enable users to group parts of the computation (but this may become confusing when they write nonsensical parentheses).