04-11-18 03:33 Shaun Bebbington wrote to All about Something strange going o
Howdy! Shaun,
SB> @MSGID:
SB> Hi,
SB> I found something odd today in the powerful CBM BASIC v2.0.
SB> Having worked with Sinclair BASIC quite a lot recently, I use GOTO X
SB> where X is a valid line number (i.e., LET X = 100). But I know that's
SB> not possible with Microsoft BASIC. Of course there is the ON X GO TO
SB> 100,200 ...
SB> So I thought "I know, I'll try and use a function, could CBM BASIC use
SB> this as a look up table". The following, I expected to go to the value
SB> in the function A() which returns 10, but...
SB> 0 DEF FN A(X) = 10
SB> 1 PRINT FN A(0)
SB> 2 GO TO FN A(0)
SB> 3 PRINT "END GRACEFULLY"
SB> 4 END
SB> 10 PRINT "STOP"
SB> 11 STOP
SB> Try it for yourself. What's going on here?
SB> Thanks in advance.
X isn't given a VALUE yet. I "think" (TM).
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