HP "calculators" (was Re: World's first computer on ebay!)

-----------Original Message: Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:51:58 -0700 From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> Subject: Re: HP "calculators" (was Re: World's first computer on ebay!) Yes, it's true that BASIC doesn't differentiate lexically between the assignment operator and equality test, but that seems to be unrelated to the behavior of the two statements I gave. In fact, I don't know what the operation performed by GWBASIC is in "X=Y=7". Cheers, Chuck -------------Reply #2: Maybe what's missing in my blathering is that when BASIC does a conditional test it's actually looking for a non-zero number in whatever its argument is, which could be a logical expression (which returns 0 or -1) or simply a variable. So instead of IF A <> 0 THEN... you can just say IF A THEN..., something you'll see throughout my sloppy code ;-). m