[Coco] What are the rules for naming basic09 variables ?

[James Jones]

Looked a little more, and the only hard limit I've found so far is that as
part of the lexical scanning, the name length is accumulated in the B
register..

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 5:49 PM L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
wrote:

> Actually, from what I remember, the length of a variable name is only
> limited to free RAM. If you want to make a 100 character variable, it will
> work (and if you made a second the same length but the last character
> changed, they would still be considered unique). Of course, once you PACK
> it, that is all gone anyways, but in the BASIC09 editor, it just consumes
> more space in the variable name table.
>
> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>
>
>
> > On Jul 26, 2019, at 4:16 PM, coco at jechar.ca wrote:
> >
> >
> > Thanks I will try some things based on these rules to confirm and then
> let everyone know.
> >
> > On 2019-07-26 17:49, James Jones wrote:
> >> I'd have to look or experiment to confirm the 29-character limit,
> though I
> >> have no reason not to believe it and it would make sense if symbol table
> >> entries are 32 bytes. The rest I can confirm is exactly right. Variable
> >> (and parameter) names must start with a letter, with the remaining being
> >> either letters, digits, or underscores, optionally ending with dollar
> sign
> >> but only if its type is string.
> >
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