Translator – New Operand Processing

Once it appeared all the changes were made for the new operand processing (new find code and process final operand routines), the process of getting it compile began. Several corrections were made. Once most of the errors were corrected, one problem remained.

Previously there was an operand array in the Translator class that held pointers to the output list items. This array was filled in the old find code routine and used by the callers of find code to attached to a newly created PRN output item. The array is not necessary for the new find code and so was removed. However, the array was still be used by the Assign command handler, which filled the array with the value being assigned to be used when creating the output item.

The operand array was only used locally so the Assign command handler was updated to have a local variable for holding the operand of the value being assigned. If this operand is a string, then a one element operand pointer is allocated to attach to the RPN output item. Now that the code compiles successfully, debugging can begin...