[Coco] A bug in Basic09/RunB

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Dec 8 08:54:45 EST 2009


On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Robert Gault wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Basic09 is a 'base 0' language.  There are some, but I avoid them like
>> h1n1, that are 'base 1' because once you are into that mindset where 0 is
>> a valid number, a base 1 system seems irrevocably broken.
>>
>> [...]
>
>That's not quite right. :) 

Ahh right, and that is why nearly everything I did in b09 has a BASE 0 in it. 
I had forgotten that.  BASE 1 always seemed to be a broken idea to me.

>The default condition of Basic09 is 'base 1'
>but you can use the BASE 0  BASE 1 commands to change the index for
>first elements in an array or data structure.
>This command, BASE, does not affect string commands.
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