[Coco] [Color Computer] Polymorphisim in BASIC?

tim lindner tlindner at macmess.org
Wed Jul 29 14:05:10 EDT 2009


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Wes<wlhaynes1248 at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the September '86 issue of the Rainbow there is a 3D graphing program by
> Jeff Harper which is polymorphic. The user enters a mathematical function
> which is then parsed, tokenized, and POKE'd back into a reserved line
> number. The program then calls this line as it draws its graph. Its
> tokenizer only handles math functions, but it's still pretty neat.
> Definitely worth checking out if you're interested in that sort of thing.
>

Thanks for the pointer. That is a real interesting bit of
self-modifying BASIC code.


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tim lindner



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