Original Author Paul Laughton, 2011
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De Re BASIC!
Table of Contents
Changes in this Version ............................................................................................................................... 24
About the Title, De Re BASIC! ..................................................................................................................... 25
About the Cover Art .................................................................................................................................... 25
Credits ......................................................................................................................................................... 25
Technical Editor........................................................................................................................................... 25
Getting BASIC! ............................................................................................................................................. 25
BASIC! Forum .............................................................................................................................................. 25
BASIC! Tutorial ............................................................................................................................................ 25
BASIC! Operation ........................................................................................................................................ 26
Permissions ............................................................................................................................................. 26
Editor ....................................................................................................................................................... 26
Editing the Program ............................................................................................................................ 26
Multiple Commands on a Line ............................................................................................................ 27
Line Continuation ................................................................................................................................ 27
# - Format Line .................................................................................................................................... 27
Menus ................................................................................................................................................. 28
Run .......................................................................................................................................................... 34
Menu ................................................................................................................................................... 35
Crashes .................................................................................................................................................... 35
A BASIC! Program ........................................................................................................................................ 35
Command Description Syntax ..................................................................................................................... 36
Upper and Lower Case ............................................................................................................................ 36
<nexp>, <sexp> and <lexp> ..................................................................................................................... 36
<nvar>, <svar> and <lvar> ....................................................................................................................... 36
Array[] and Array$[] ................................................................................................................................ 36
Array[{<start>,<length>}] and Array$[{<start>,<length>}] ..................................................................... 36
{something} ............................................................................................................................................. 36
{ A | B |C } ............................................................................................................................................... 36
X, ... ......................................................................................................................................................... 37
{,n} ... ....................................................................................................................................................... 37