[Coco] BASIC irony

[Robert Emery]

--- tim lindner <tlindner at ix.netcom.com> wrote:


> I am in the process of writing a tokenizer/de-tokenizer for Boisy's CoCo

> Tools project and I have run accross something interesting.

> 

> Everyone knows that the apostrophe is a short cut for the REM keyword.

> The the irony is that the apostrophe is tokenized as two bytes where the

> REM keyword is tokenized as one.


Wow, so using REM instead of ' actually saves program space.
That's wild.

Bob




		
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