[Coco] Cocopedia update

Christopher Smith csmith at wolfram.com
Mon Aug 12 12:54:18 EDT 2013


Seems to me that this could even be done with a preprocessor; it's not a huge feature request by any stretch. :)

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Ewy" <jcewy at swbell.net>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 11:10:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Cocopedia update
> 
> On 08/08/2013 04:31 PM, Wayne Campbell wrote:
> > I was again able to work on the Structure of I-Code. It is my hope
> > that I
> > will soon have this page completed, at least summarily. Beyond that
> > it will
> > be making changes as people let me know what they are not
> > understanding or
> > having difficulty with. I tend to write in a fashion that allows me
> > to make
> > my writing understandable to 7th and 8th graders, so if anything
> > seems to
> > need further explanation, please let me know. I welcome all
> > questions
> > concerning Basic09 and I-Code. Even if I don't know the answer, I
> > will try
> > to find it.
> >
> > Wayne
> > <http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/The_Structure_of_I-Code>
> >
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> This is good stuff, Wayne.  Thanks for sharing your knowledge.  It
> makes
> me wonder about the possibility of an updated BASIC-09 compiler that
> would produce compatible i-code modules -- or maybe even a different
> language entirely that would compile to i-code. What I would really
> like
> to see in BASIC-09 is meaningful labels for program flow instead of
> line
> numbers.  That would make ON GOTO and ON GOSUB much nicer, for
> instance.  Couldn't that be done by hashing symbolic names into line
> numbers without any change to the i-code structure?  I could also do
> without the integrated editor.  I'd love to see a stand-alone
> BASIC-09
> compiler, or a modernized IDE.
> 
> Thanks again for documenting this stuff.
> 
> JCE
> 
> p.s.  I originally sent this reply on 8/9/13, but it never appeared
> in
> my CoCo mail list folder, though it shows up in Thunderbird's 'Sent'.
> Not sure what happened there.  Sorry if it duplicates.
> 
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Christopher Smith
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