23 Mar
2007
23 Mar
'07
5:21 p.m.
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
When you extend BASIC with multicharacter variables
and optional LET,
you have to admit some sort of lexical control, either by saying that
an identifier can't begin with a reserved word, demanding white space
or some other such mechanism. Otherwise, something like
400 LETJ=3
becomes ambiguous.
yeah, but is that related to why IBM Microsoft FORTRAN couldn't handle 6
character variable names that ended with QQ?