21 Nov
2005
21 Nov
'05
1:09 p.m.
Jim Battle wrote:
Allison, that seems unlikely. Later versions of
microsoft basic
certainly didn't use any value lower than 0x80 for tokens. Even if you
could find a few characters in the "live" portion of the ascii table
that didn't lead to ambiguous parsing, I can't think of a good reason
why they'd do it -- there was enough room at 0x80 and above, and not
enough unused values below 0x80, so why have two lookup tables when one
would do?
Aha - didn't the last letter of each keyword have bit 7 set?
That would mean that it would be 63+128 = 191
Just a thought.
Gordon.