Scientific Calculator Plus : Language manual

All the functions except the built-in ones in Scientific Calculator Plus are developed by a language called MFP. MFP means Mathematical language For Parallel computing. Parallel computing is a built-in feature of this scripting language. Besides parallel computing and normal mathematical expressions and operators, this language also supports object oriented programming , binary number (with 0b as initial, e.g. 0b0011100), octal number (with 0 as initial, e.g. 0371.242), hexadecimal number (with 0x as initial, e.g. 0xAF46BC.0DD3E), complex number, array (matrix), string, function, citingspace, variable, condition statements, loop statements and help comments. This language is case-insensative.

MFP programming language has the following statements:

function, endf, return

variable

if, elseif, else, endif

while, loop, do, until, for, next

break, continue

select, case, default, ends

try, throw, catch, endtry

class, public, private, self, super, this, endclass

call, endcall

citingspace, using

help, endh, @language

@compulsory_link

@execution_entry

@build_asset

Each statement in MFP should occupy at least one line. If a statement is too long, it can be divided into several lines, and at the end of each line except the last line should be the characters " _". For example, assume there is a function with 10 parameters, the declaration of this function is very long if the function declaration statement is put in a single line:

function abcde(para1, para2, para3, para4, para5, para6, para7, para8, para9, para10)

. To make the program reader-friendly, the declaration can be devided into several lines like:

function abcde(para1, para2, para3, _

               para4, para5, para6, _

               para7, para8, para9, para10)

. And we can still add comment at the end of each line, for the above example, comments can be added like:

function abcde(para1, para2, para3, _// line 1 has 3 parameters.

               para4, para5, para6, _		// line 2 has 3 parameters too.

               para7, para8, para9, para10) // line three has 4 parameters.

. And each line can have at most one statement. Not like C/C++, MFP doesn't have any statement divisor, e.g. ";".