13 May
2005
13 May
'05
11:30 a.m.
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 5/12/05, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com>
wrote:
I'm pretty sure Applesoft BASIC had up to 16 levels.
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At 12:56 PM 5/12/2005, Allison wrote:
On a 6502 (PET, Apple II...) it's not that deep because of the 1-page
stack. ISTR about 5 levels of GOSUBs were possible before you ran the
risk of stack overflow, but it might have been as deep as 8. Often reading it is the challenge. Goto within a
subroutine
usually reads fine. Its when there are subs within Loop/whiles
get mixed with gotos.
Even BASIC has a call stack that will eventually overflow.