[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's not exactly documented anywhere really. Well not until QL Toady > prints my next article where I have a good rant on the subject :o)
Well, I myself have never used this and only read up on it after your questions... > Mind you, it allows someone more knowlegable that I am to comment in > the next QL Toady about how wrong I am ! The idea of my own column commenting on all the things I read that are wrong or at least not-quite-right has already crossed my mind, but then I'm lazy and currently don't have much time. ;-) > Hmmm. That's interesting and looks quite clever too. I can see > where you are coming from. When I read the docs, I was led (or led > myself) into thinking that you have a 'stack' area where you keep > your variables and that this area was purely used for the purpose. > So I'd have an area of 6*N bytes where N is the max number of FPs I > want to store and set A4 to point there (relative A6). Thanks. You're welcome. As I said, I've never used this myself, but I guess that's the proper way to use it. > You see, the 'continentals' only drive on the right because they > have copied America (which makes me wonder why France drives on the > right - but hey !) Actually according to several sources France drove on the right before America made the switch from left to right after the War of Independence. Wikipedia even goes so far as to say that they not only did this to spite the British but to show gratitude to the French. Not sure how true that point really is though. Napoleon did the rest to spread right-side driving in Europe. > So you see, we in the UK, Australia and so forth actually had first > choice and led the way (ok, maybe not Australia, but we told them > where to drive!) and everybody else copied the new and fashionable > Americans :o) Well, historically using the left side made sense with all the swords hanging on the left side and enemies approaching from the right. But some parts of the world have moved on from there ;-) Frankly, the right is my "good" hand and I do prefer hanging the left uselessly out of the driver window while the other is doing all the hard work ;-) Cheers, Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
