XPost: alt.lang.basic   
   From: dave-ng@nospam.tld   
      
   Sometime on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:21:49 +0100, Knut Roll-Lund scribbled:   
      
   > About the nasty syntax of TRS-80 basic: An extra trick for saving   
   > memory, to make your program to fit also in a 16K machine, was to   
   > renumber the program starting at 1 with 1 as increment. This would gain   
   > both speed and size, because GOTO and GOSUB statements would have the   
   > line number stored as ascii (shorter numbers take less time to decode).   
      
   There was also the trick of using line number zero.  GOTO or GOSUB with no   
   line number would go there ;-)   
      
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