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Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers

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>   From: Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk>
>lachman@ebony.ppc.ubc.ca (Milton Lachman) writes:
>> So what is it about DIV such that "9DIV8" won't be an operation while
>> "2TO3" is?  Might this work on Minerva's superBASIC instead?
>
>There is no difference.  "2TO3" parses as integer 2 followed by
>identifier TO3, exactly as "9DIV8" parses as integer 9 followed by
>identifier DIV8.
>
>You will find the code at 8706 in the JS (if the disassembly I have to
>hand is accurate) or pa_chnlt in Minerva.  It looks for anything that
>could possibly be an identifier, it doesn't stop just because it happens
>to match a keyword and it doesn't take surrounding context into account.

 It's ironic that the QL doesn't do so, while the ZX machines did, esp.
 as it must go through a list of operators in order of precedence. So
 I'll post a revision of the routine, and make it more recognisable as 
 superBASIC. 

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Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers Guesser <alistair@alistairsserver.no-ip.org> - 2011-03-29 19:38 +0100
  Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers spike1@freenet.co.uk - 2011-03-29 22:26 +0100
    Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-03-30 10:57 +0100
      Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers spike1@freenet.co.uk - 2011-03-30 18:50 +0100
        Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-03-30 19:27 +0100
          Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers lachman@ebony.ppc.ubc.ca - 2011-03-31 05:18 +0000
            Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-03-31 10:55 +0100
              Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers spike1@freenet.co.uk - 2011-03-31 17:10 +0100
                Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-03-31 17:31 +0100
              Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers lachman@ebony.ppc.ubc.ca (Milton Lachman) - 2011-04-01 16:24 +0000
                Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-04-01 18:17 +0100
                Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-04-01 18:22 +0100
                Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers lachman@ebony.ppc.ubc.ca (Milton Lachman) - 2011-04-07 18:18 +0000
        Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers lachman@ebony.ppc.ubc.ca (Milton Lachman) - 2011-03-30 23:00 +0000
          Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers Guesser <alistair@alistairsserver.no-ip.org> - 2011-03-31 00:38 +0100
          Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers lachman@ebony.ppc.ubc.ca (Milton Lachman) - 2011-04-12 18:08 +0000
  Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers lachman@ebony.ppc.ubc.ca (Milton Lachman) - 2011-03-30 22:39 +0000

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