Brian Mclaughlin was speaking to All about Compiler quirk? 
 BM> The quirk is in the colon that separates the IF statement from
 BM> the LET statement (test% = 999). I would expect the compiler to
 BM> treat this code as equivalent to this...
Brian, that's the way I've always expected the single line IF/THEN to
operate. In the oolldd GW days, this was the closest thing you could
get to a block IF statement. The PB32 compiler incorporates the GW
syntax.
Stan Helton
... He who would trade freedom for security deserves neither. - Franklin
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