XPost: alt.lang.basic   
   From: samiamsansspam@Sun.COM   
      
   Steve Foley wrote On 12/05/05 13:08,:   
   > Back when I was programming an MAI/Basic 4, everything was tokenized.   
   >   
   > You could type in   
   >   
   > 10FORI=1TO10   
   > 10 FOR I = 1 TO 10   
   > 10     FOR I = 1TO10   
   >   
   > or anything else you could think of. When you typed 'list' you would get   
   >   
   > 0010 FOR I=1 TO 10   
   >   
   > I remember someone watching over my shoulder while I was writing code. They   
   > couldn't believe the mess on the screen, because I never used the spacebar.   
   > There was absolutely no point.   
   >   
      
   There is no reason you cannot also tolkenize the spaces as well. Several Basics   
   tolkenized spaces, and some had a special tolken that represented multiple   
   spaces in one tolken.   
      
   Ie., because you used a crappy basic does not mean they were all bad.   
      
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