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Issue 6.1

COLUMN

An RPN Interpreter

Installment Two

Issue: 6.1 (November/December 2007)
Author: Charles Yeomans
Author Bio: Charles is the author of "I Declare: Calling External Functions in REALbasic", available online at http://www.declareSub.com/
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Article Number: 6117
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In the last installment of this column, I presented a naive implementation of an RPN interpreter. Now, we rewrite that code. The goal is to decouple parsing and evaluation of the arithmetic expression, with an eye toward greater things. We begin with the evaluation of an RPN expression.

As discussed previously, reverse Polish notation (RPN), also called postfix notation, is a notation for writing mathematical expressions in which the operands for a function or operator precede the function. We can translate this more or less directly into REALbasic.

We introduce classes RPNOperator and RPNOperand to correspond to operators and operands, respectively. Since they are both pieces of an RPN expression, we define a superclass RPNToken from which they inherit.

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