Applesoft tokenization phases?

From	"Ev. Drikos" <drikosev@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Applesoft tokenization phases?
Date	2020-03-12 17:46 +0200
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Message-ID	<20-03-013@comp.compilers> (permalink)

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Hello,

This question relates to thread "Languages with Optional Spaces".

In an Applesoft II manual I've found at "classiccmp.org" [1], page 7,
we read that in a variable name any alphanumeric characters after the
first two are ignored, unless they contain a reserved world. FEND ie
would be illegal as it contains END.

To implement such a rule one could first recognize keywords and then
recognize any names. We see in p123 that stmt I is tokenized as II:
  I.   stmt: 100 FOR A = LOFT OR CAT  To 15
II. tokens: 100 FOR A = LOF TO RC AT To 15

Yet, I've found ie a program at "hoist-point.com" [2] that contains:
110 DIFF = ABS(A(I)-N)

Also, an online AppleSoft simulator at calormen.com [3] accepts ie both
DIFF and FEND as valid variable names.

As it seems, this issue can affect a design choice for the tokenization
phases of an Applesoft front-end. Is the manual just informative or the
online simulator does not accept (precisely) the particular dialect?


Ev. Drikos


PS: The eight (8) Basic examples in the Compukit UK101 Simulator project
seem to be compatible to Applesoft, although I haven't seen this term in
the site [4] or the computer manual that contains a Basic Reference; not
sure also if the Superboard II accepts a dialect compatible to Applesoft.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
[1] http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Apple/
[2] http://www.hoist-point.com/applesoft_basic_tutorial.htm
[3] https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic/
[4] http://uk101.sourceforge.net/docs/index.html

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Applesoft tokenization phases? "Ev. Drikos" <drikosev@gmail.com> - 2020-03-12 17:46 +0200
  Re: Applesoft tokenization phases? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2020-03-13 17:55 -0400
  Re: Applesoft tokenization phases? awanderin <awanderin@gmail.com> - 2020-03-16 00:07 -0600
    Re: Applesoft tokenization phases? "Ev. Drikos" <drikosev@gmail.com> - 2020-03-18 00:14 +0200
      Re: Applesoft tokenization phases? Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2020-03-20 07:06 -0400
        Re: Applesoft tokenization phases? Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2020-03-21 19:42 +0000

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