[Coco] RE: Coco Digest, Vol 35, Issue 71

[Ries, Rich [S&FS]]

Mark McDougall wrote:

It's frustrating because I'm trying to do some fast bit-manipulation in
a 
BASIC program, and I turned to ML to speed things up, only to find that 
BASIC has no concept of INTEGERS and passing values to/from ML is rather

*S*L*O*W* because of the INTCNV/GIVABF routines... :(


It's been more than a few decades, but I think I remember a BASIC/ML
comm program that used a string to hold parameters: A$ = "112358", and
then used VAR(A$)* to get the address of A$, which was POKEd into the ML
routine, which was loaded via POKEs from BASIC. Convoluted, but it may
help. (And if I am too terse, let me know, and I'll try to explain it
more.)


--Rich

*I think this is the command -- I'm at work, and as I said, it's been
quite a while back.