Re: [stella] Atari 2600 BASIC compiler

Subject: Re: [stella] Atari 2600 BASIC compiler
From: Kirk Israel <kirkjerk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 20:28:40 -0400
> Or you can do something like SQL (if x between 10 and 50) which might be
> easier to parse? 

that's a pretty good idea, and a good point that that's a very common
task (actually, more common is
(if x notbetween 10 50)
 
> 
> But I think it would be important to be able to reuse variables as we do in
> ASM with overlays. 

Well, you can always do that with named variables, just be aware that
you can't use it for both things at once. You don't really NEED
overlays, they're just semantic sugar that might just add complexity
to a BASIC
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