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Re: Peersoft..1.5.6 is out for 2016

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D Finnigan wrote:
> Benoit0123 wrote:
>> (snip)
>> c) Applesoft bug fixes:
>> c.1) As a sideway of supporting the processing of the byte subtype, an
>> Applesoft bug illustrated by codlet below is fixed:
>> 10  REM Enter the "10:10" (w/o the double-quotes) string at input prompt
>> 20  INPUT "TIME OF EVENT: ";A$: PRINT A$
>> Will output the string "10" to display under plain vanilla Applesoft
>> instead
>> of the entered string as a whole.
>> This bug was noted by Ivan Drucker at a Kansasfest past session while
>> describing his "Nu Input" package. From now on and with the help of
>> Peersoft, Applesoft "sucks" a bit less (to quote Ivan's own adjective to
>> qualify those Applesoft statements) ;-). 
>> c.2) Plain vanilla Applesoft could not handle this statement: A% = -32768
>> despite the fact that -32768 is a perfectly valid value to be bound to an
>> integer variable (well when signed arithmetic is active ;-). Peersoft
>> includes a fix for that bug as well.
>> 
>> d) New syntax scheme for iterating through arrays element by element. A
>> previous syntax extension allowed for iterating thru a multidimensional
>> array's elements, using a loop with just one level/one index variable
>> (see
>> provided documentation and sample below).
> 
> It's always good to see bugs fixed, and the new array element syntax looks
> useful too.
>
Now are the source, bin and deploy resources reachable thru github @
https://github.com/benoit0123/peersoft repository.
The whole development process can be based upon either the Virtual 2
emulator that supports host file folders as DOS 3.3 disk images (being
tested on my Mac OS X) or using the Merlin 32 tool by Brutal Deluxe (tests
to come, in particular for outputting DOS3.3 simple structure binary files
as its output format).


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Peersoft..1.5.6 is out for 2016 Benoit0123 <bgilon@free.fr> - 2016-01-05 19:22 +0000
  Re: Peersoft..1.5.6 is out for 2016 D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2016-01-05 21:28 +0000
    Re: Peersoft..1.5.6 is out for 2016 Benoit0123 <bgilon@free.fr> - 2016-01-12 14:18 +0000

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