[Coco] What? No MOD?!

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Sun Dec 29 21:57:02 EST 2013


On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
> I'm fiddling with the idea of writing a simulator for the M-209 cipher machine (a WW2 era mechanical cipher machine used by US forces; bleed-over from another one of my hobbies) in Basic and porting it to various vintage machines that I have. I was surprised to discover that Basic in the CoCo does not include a modulo arithmetic operator. I'm outraged, I tell you! :)
>

Considering that CoCo Basic lacks integer variables altogether, the
lack of a MOD function doesn't seem all that astonishing...

Art



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