[Color Computer] Re: [Coco] NT: BASIC educate {CoCo - DECB}

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

There is an Quirk in OE QuoteFix that apparently considers ":" at the start
of the line the same as ">" so the ": separates statements on the same line"
was missing the ":" and confused me until I looked at the raw message.

Any Way, Back to CoCo.

I am about to add to the allowable characters in Line Labels and Variables
in the DECB Preprocessor (Urbane www.coco3.com/urbane ).

I have looked and have not found any more special character usage than what
is in the list below. And the Operators.

Does "ADOS", "FDOS" and any of the other DECB extensions use any additional
special Characters?

Where are the definite lists of keywords for these DECB extensions.

I want to add their keywords to "Urbane" and become aware of any special
conditions that special processing must be added.

Thanks

Stephen H. Fischer

Robert Gault wrote:
> Just "looking in all the wrong places". Special Characters are listed
> in the Coco3 Quick Reference Guide,  p25 or the equivalent for the
> Coco 1&2, an accordion fold-out.
>
> Special Characters
> ' abbreviation for REM
> $ makes variable a string type
> &H makes numeric constants hexadecimal (only listed in Coco3 book)
> &O makes numeric constants octal       (only listed in Coco3 book)
>> separates statements on the same line
> ? same as print
> , PRINT punctuation - tab
> ; PRINT punctuation - no space between items
>
> Glen VanDenBiggelaar 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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