[Coco] Giovanni Nunes’ BASIC “inliner” script

[James Jones]

It might not take much work to turn it into a BASIC version of Ratfor
(showing my age there), though targeting an interpreted language instead of
a compiled one would mean that debugging would dump you right back into the
world that something like Ratfor is intended to shield you from.

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 8:34 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> I do not know if Giovanni is on this list, but he just posted to the
> Facebook group a link to his “inliner” script, which is similar to
> something else someone shared here in recent years:
>
> https://github.com/plainspooky/inliner/tree/master/examples
>
> It takes a BASIC program you write in a text editor, without lines
> numbers, and processes it to have line numbers. This lets you write nicely
> formatted code and use defines (kinda like C) and have code comments that
> are either included in final source, or not. You use text labels rather
> than line numbers:
>
> ‘ define MAX 100
>
> Start:
>         T = RND(MAX)
>
> Ask:
>         PRINT “I am thinking of a number from 1 -“;{{MAX}}
>         INPUT “What is your guess?”;G
>
>         IF G > {{MAX}} THEN
>                 \ PRINT “That is not between 1 and”;{{MAX}};
>                 \ GOTO {{Ask}}
>
>         IF G > T THEN
>                 \ PRINT “Too high!”
>                 \ GOTO {{Ask}}
>
>         IF G < T THEN
>                 \ PRINT “Too low!”
>                 \ GOTO {{Ask}}
>
>         PRINT “You got it!”
>         END
>
> ...or something like that.
>
> I have been doing cross development on a PC/Mac and then loading the .BAS
> file in as an ASCII file in XRoar, and any time I move lines around, I have
> to manually remember. A script like this would take care of that and could
> be added to a batch/shell script to do it automatically before coping to a
> .DSK image for loading in an emulator.
>
> I haven’t tested this script yet, but plan to check it out.
>
> I know Commodore folks have a nice cross-hosted BASIC development system
> that is pretty slick. I wonder if there is a more generic one that we could
> customize for Color BASIC.
>
> Happy Friday.
>
>         — A
>
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