[Coco] Cocopedia update

[Wayne Campbell]

One of Basic09's problems is that the executable module is 23K in size.
Without going to a modular form, you aren't going to add much of anything
to it. Even then, the rest of the 64K space is used for the workspace and
data space of your procedures. I wouldn't want to mess with that.

Wayne
 On Aug 12, 2013 12:54 PM, "Christopher Smith" <csmith at wolfram.com> wrote:

> 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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