XPost: comp.lang.c++, alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi   
   From: jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net   
      
   Bruce Roberts wrote:   
      
   > "Jim P"  wrote in message   
   > news:bLudnQZt0qIFNB3ZnZ2dnUVZ_qOdnZ2d@comcast.com...   
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   >>Why do this the hard way.   
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   >   
   > Because that is what was asked for.   
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   >>I showed a 10 year old kid how to do this in VB and then in Delphi.   
   >>   
   >>Just put some edit boxes on the form.   
   >>   
   >>and some buttons - - click a button does selected task. Cheap, Simply and   
   >>educational. The kid and friends played with it for hours - to the   
   >>mothers surprise. and the kid did the coding.   
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   > Except that this solution cannot handle out of order evaluation, e.g. 5 + 6   
   > * 7, with correct operator precedence. Glad the kids had fun learning   
   > something new.   
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   that is why you need a globel number and operator stack with a recursive   
   evaluation function.   
      done that! been there before!   
      
      
      
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