XPost: alt.lang.basic   
   From: samiamsansspam@Sun.COM   
      
   anoneds@netscape.net wrote On 12/05/05 13:22,:   
   > Daniel Hamilton wrote:   
   >    
   >   
   >>10 FORI=1TO10   
   >>   
   >>That is just evil.  Whoever is so lazy as to do this deserves whatever   
   >>comes to them!  How hard is it to press a space bar?  Why does pressing   
   >>the space bar even require knowing anything about how to type?  Whoever   
   >>the crazy programmer was that made Tandy BASIC accept such code should   
   >>be hog-tied! *I'm sure it had something to do with memory constraint   
   >>right?* :)   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > This was just part of it! Even more evil was that these BASIC's that   
   > supported this would interpret something like:   
   >   
   > 10 FORMAT=5   
   >   
   > as 10 FOR MAT=5   
   >   
   > and generate an error because it wasn't a valid FOR statement!   
   >   
   > EVIL!   
   >   
      
   Any basic that accepted multicharacter variable identifiers would NOT   
   also be a "no space required" basic, they are mutually exclusive.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)