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Re: What happened to LIBRARY LOCAL?

Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject Re: What happened to LIBRARY LOCAL?
References <op.vupcgvdvn5ksl5@richard> <ipfapn$r1g$1@dont-email.me>
Date 2011-04-30 10:33 +0100
From "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk>
Message-ID <op.vuqvirovn5ksl5@richard> (permalink)
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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?

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.

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/

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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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