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Re: What happened to LIBRARY LOCAL?

From	Matthew Wightman <matthew.wightman@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject	Re: What happened to LIBRARY LOCAL?
Date	2011-04-30 11:09 +0100
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On 30/04/2011 10:33, Richard Russell wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:32:35 +0100, Matthew Wightman
> <matthew.wightman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As far as I can tell, the document you describe is the Brandy Basic
>> "Basic V Guide". It can be found as "basic" in the docs directory of
>> the Brandy distribution available on SourceForge
>
> Interesting. There's no mention of Brandy by name in the file.
>
> Are you suggesting that LIBRARY LOCAL was a feature devised specifically
> for Brandy, or that it was originally intended for ARM BASIC but
> abandoned or removed for some reason?

At the time of my previous post, I was guessing. I've now seen
http://www.apdl.co.uk/riscworld/volume1/issue7/brandy/index.htm (An 
article in RISCWorld about Brandy Basic by Dave Daniels) which mentions 
that libraries having private variables is a Brandy extension.

>
> Given that Brandy doesn't in general extend the language (apart from the
> longer strings) it seems somewhat strange to me that this one feature
> would have been added. If the intention had been to extend BBC BASIC,
> many other (arguably more valuable) additions could have been
> implemented at the same time.

Looking through the Brandy documentation, there do seem to be a number 
of other extensions, in addition to the ones mentioned in the article.

-- 
Matthew Wightman

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What happened to LIBRARY LOCAL? "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-04-29 14:44 +0100
  Re: What happened to LIBRARY LOCAL? Matthew Wightman <matthew.wightman@gmail.com> - 2011-04-29 22:32 +0100
    Re: What happened to LIBRARY LOCAL? "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-04-30 10:33 +0100
      Re: What happened to LIBRARY LOCAL? Matthew Wightman <matthew.wightman@gmail.com> - 2011-04-30 11:09 +0100

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