[Coco] NT: BASIC educate

[Paul T. Barton]

Also, the single tic " ' " is REM.

paul

--- Glen VanDenBiggelaar <glenvdb at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi, all,
> I thought I would ask a question about BASIC, that's been bugging me for 25 
> years. Before I got my first CoCo (83) I learned BASIC on the old PET. one 
> of the first things I discovered was that the "PRINT" statement could be 
> substituted for just "?" (a question Mark). I then used this on many Apple 
> 2's, C64's, and ultimately on the CoCo.
> My question is:
> How come this is not documented anywhere in the Tandy Manuals, or in the 
> many programs in Rainbow, etc? Is using this flaky? Is it just bad educate? 
> or is it just to confusing for some? I know its just saving 3 keystrokes, 
> but when you are typing in a 6 page program, it does save a bit of time.
> -Glen
> 
> 
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