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| From | Matthew Wightman <matthew.wightman@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.programmer |
| Subject | Re: What happened to LIBRARY LOCAL? |
| Date | 2011-04-30 13:05 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ipgtur$lqu$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 30/04/2011 11:57, Richard Russell wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:09:38 +0100, Matthew Wightman
> <matthew.wightman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Looking through the Brandy documentation, there do seem to be a number
>> of other extensions, in addition to the ones mentioned in the article.
>
> Specifically what? The article (thanks very much for the link, I hadn't
> read it before) lists long strings and LIBRARY LOCAL as the only "major"
> changes. The remaining ones mentioned (for example an optional TO clause
> for OSCLI and the FILEPATH$ pseudo-variable) are very minor in terms of
> extending the language.
The extensions I was noticing while browsing through the documentation
were also minor things: places you could give lists of values where
other implementations accept only one value (BPUT#, INSTALL), along with
added functions such as "VERIFY(" and "XLATE$(".
>
> My attempts to use Brandy (v1.16) have been stymied by bugs,
> particularly related to @%. For example this code simply prints out "F":
>
> @%=&2090F
> PRINT PI
FWIW, the most recent version of Brandy I can find ("Brandy Basic V
Interpreter Version 1.20pre5 (Linux) 26-Dec-2007") prints
" 3.141592654" for PI with that value of @%.
>
> Richard.
> http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/
--
Matthew Wightman
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Re: What happened to LIBRARY LOCAL? "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-04-30 11:57 +0100
Re: What happened to LIBRARY LOCAL? Matthew Wightman <matthew.wightman@gmail.com> - 2011-04-30 13:05 +0100
Re: What happened to LIBRARY LOCAL? "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-04-30 18:13 +0100
Re: What happened to LIBRARY LOCAL? Sprow <news@sprow.co.uk> - 2011-05-01 01:38 -0700
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