On 22/04/2018 15:18, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 14:16:06 +0100, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
>
>> OK, can't compile completely as there has to be some symbol table info
>> somewhere so that a variable defined as, eg, CurrentArrayIndex does not
>> list back as V32  :-)
>>
> You might also want to think about the editor part of your runtime. I'm
> saying this because a major difference in usability between interactive
> languages (and even between various BASICs) is the ease of use or plain
> horridness of some of the editors they've used to view and change
> programs.

Writing an editor is something to come after the basic text in/out has
been resolved and bootstrapped into its own language.

It's also something with pitfalls, for, if editing into the compiled
code may take several steps in different parts of the source which
would be incompatible with each other and hence cause a compilation error!

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