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Article #4603Re: Favorite error messages
From: gp... Vos G P
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 10:32
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 10:32
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t...@its.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham) writes:
>The BBC B micro's BASIC had a (very good) renumber command. If you got the
>parameters wrong in some way (which I forget; I suppose it was something
>like renumber 500,0 instead of 0,500 ie renumber the lines 0 to 500), you
>got the error message
> Silly
>It may just be me, but this strikes me as being very English.
And then the Basic ROM User Guide (some third-party publication) had an
example in it of a hack around this. For if you REALLY wanted all your
lines to have the same line number.
Now, ain't that silly!
- Gerben.
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