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The keywords are tokenized, the line number is converted to a 16bit integer, leading spaces are stripped (which is why some "formatted" BASIC uses ":" as the fi
by pgeorgi 3y ago
The keywords are tokenized, the line number is converted to a 16bit integer, leading spaces are stripped (which is why some "formatted" BASIC uses ":" as the first character in a line, like the following), everything else is kept intact.
10 for i = 1 to 10
20 : (arbitrary number of spaces) print "hello"
30 next
The short hand issue is real, too:
1?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?
expands into six lines of "1 print:print:....:print" that you can't simply edit because the limit is 80 characters (two lines)