Re: OODL: Runtime Code Generation: Almost as evil as the secant

[DeRobertis]

At 12:01 PM +1000 on 12/7/99, Paul Sutton wrote:
>><<Place any old number between 1 and 5 into column 0.>>
>>
>>but column 0 is for A, not a temp variable.
>
>I got the impression that the problem is that do has to create temp
>variables and they get overwritten (or something along those lines).  Why
>not then specify a range of variable numbers that can only be used by do?
> That or just append it to the table instead of putting it in the temp
>space?

Two reasons:
        1. There are a finite number of variables allowed. This would make
           it so that the temp space would be small.
        2. A single expression can generate _lots_ of temps.