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- From: zap@savage.UUCP (Zap Savage)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,alt.sources
- Subject: Re: Small introspective program
- Message-ID: <452@savage.UUCP>
- Date: 13 Mar 91 19:29:35 GMT
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- In <1991Mar13.151756.2885@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, steele@en.ecn.purdue.edu@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Richard A. Steele) writes:
- > In article <1991Mar13.032422.9438@cavebbs.gen.nz> clear@cavebbs.gen.nz (Charlie Lear) writes:
- > > REAL BASICs used
- > >to be able to tokenise, and the winner is:
- > > 1 L.
- > >which when run would produce
- > > 1 L.
- > You sure? If the BASIC is tokenized, then L. will be expanded to LIST
- > in the source code listing, so that you'd get
- > 1 LIST
- > when run. I have to admit, my only experience with tokenized basics is
- > the old 8-bit Ataris; do other basics leave the abbreviation?
-
- Nah, old TRS-80s with Level-1 Basic stored exactly what you typed and L. was
- indeed the short form of LIST as P. was short for PRINT. 1 L. would indeed
- work.
-
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