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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 2011-04-29 22:32 +0100
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On 29/04/2011 14:44, Richard Russell wrote:
> I've got a document entitled 'Basic V Guide' which evidently originates
> from Acorn and describes ARM BASIC 5 in some detail; it might even have
> been written by Sophie. Included in the document is a detailed
> description of a LIBRARY LOCAL statement:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> LIBRARY LOCAL is used to define variables and arrays that will be
> private to a library. Only the library will be able to reference
> these variables and arrays.
>
> The syntax of the statement is as follows:
>
> LIBRARY LOCAL <list of variables and arrays>
>
> where <list of variable and arrays> is a list of variable and
> array names separated by commas, for example:
>
> LIBRARY LOCAL abc%, def%, ghi$, jkl(), mno(), pqr$()
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It continues in the same vein for another page or so, with many examples.
>
> I am not aware of any released version of BASIC 5 incorporating this
> statement, but judging by the amount of information in the document the
> implementation must have been worked out in considerable detail. Does
> anybody know the history behind this?

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 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/brandy/ ).

IIUC, Brandy does implement the described LIBRARY LOCAL command.

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


-- 
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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