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

[Wayne Campbell]

I have done experiments before. It's 29 for variable names. 30 drops the
last character. I don't know if variable names have a terminating 0 unless
they are shorter than 29 characters.

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 2:00 AM Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Friday 26 July 2019 16:21:58 Wayne Campbell wrote:
>
> > Up to 29 characters, 0-9, a-z, A-Z, _
> >
> I think its 28 active, to make room for the terminating zero of the
> string.
>
> > $ only if a string variable, only as last character of the variable
> > name. Not sure, but I think first character has to be a letter?
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 1:00 PM <coco at jechar.ca> wrote:
> > >   I have seen examples of variable names 10 or 11 characters long
> > > and of the $ being used in a
> > >   variable name.
> > >
> > >   So I know that alpha numeric and $ are legal components and at
> > > least 10 characters long but I cannot
> > >   find the explicit rules so for example is underscore a legal
> > > variable name component, what is the
> > >   maximum number of characters  in a variable and are they all used
> > > or for example would
> > >   VARIABLE1 be the same as VARIABLE2 because first eight characters
> > > are all the same ?
> > >
> > >   Only answer what you know for sure. I could always try writing a
> > > bunch of test programs to
> > >   come up with the rules experimentally but perhaps someone knows
> > > the exact restrictions on basic09
> > >   variable naming ?
> > >
> > >   Charles
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