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Don't know about Commodore BASIC, but in Locomotive BASIC on the Amstrad CPC, "?" was just a text-entry convenience rather than a memory-saver. BASIC was stored
by Doctor_Fegg 13y ago
Don't know about Commodore BASIC, but in Locomotive BASIC on the Amstrad CPC, "?" was just a text-entry convenience rather than a memory-saver. BASIC was stored tokenised, so "?" was one byte same as "PRINT" (in fact, I think it was the same byte).
- vidarh 13y agoYes, it's that way on C64 too - it didn't save any space. People certainly did do a lot to save space through omitting spaces, using ";" to separate statements instead of new lines etc.
- ssdsa 13y agoIn Commodore BASIC you use ":" to separate statements. ";" is used at the end of a PRINT statement to keep it from appending a newline.
- mattl 13y agoRecognize your name from the old AA days :)