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Observation About Using CLEAR in HP 48 Programs
by Joseph K. Horn
Everybody's saying that using CLEAR in programs is a Bad Thing because it
violates the programmer's commandment "Don't pop what you didn't push."
But if you browse through the code in your Casino 48 Card from Preston Brown
Labs (100% user code), you'll see CLEAR used not just once, but twice.
This implies two things:
(1) If you're in the middle of a 48 task, and your brain needs to take a
momentary break, play MINEHUNT, not CAS48, or you might lose your stack.
(2) Using CLEAR can't be too terribly naughty. Even the experts do it...