The C and C++ standards do not specify the order of evaluation for function arguments. This can lead to subtle portability problems. As I explained in my column last month (“As Precise As Possible”), ...

Arguments are pushed onto the stack in reverse order, so the code generated for "function" will still be able to retrieve "1" as the value for the argument "i".

If you know lots of programming languages, then you're already accustomed to the ability to declare and use functions with a variable number of arguments, where the number and type of arguments ...

Some additional restrictions apply to the values that you pass as arguments to SCL functions and CALL routines. Some SCL functions and CALL routines accept only names of variables as arguments, but ...

A function is a pre-defined calculation entered in a cell to help you analyze or manipulate data in a spreadsheet. All you have to do is add the arguments, and the calculation is automatically made ...