Re: BASIC grammar

arargh403NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> I bought a copy of the Standard in order to figure out if I could get
> BCET to comply.  The Standard is a .PDF of scanned pages with the text
> OCR'ed (but never edited - it has errors) for searching purposses.
> The PDF is 20 meg, and the actual text is about 600k.

Ouch.  I was going to write a subset of Modula-2 actually, and found a 
professor at a local university with a copy.  The Modula-2 standard was 
several hundred pages and absolutely unreadable.  I am wondering if it's 
the same for the BASIC standard?

I think I might even go back to my original idea of Modula-2/Pascal 
subsets, especially now that you mention there's little scope for 
optimisation of any kind (it's certainly the case my original will use 
calls to the standard C library).

> There isn't too much that can be done in terms of code optimaztion.
> Basic generally winds up doing so many library calls, that there isn't
> much left to optimize.  Take a look at the intermediate files of a
> BCET compile.

You've worked on BCET since 1992?  What was that paper you mentioned in 
the FAQ which gave you a hint about code generation?

> Gee, that's where I was, 12 years ago.  

12 years... hmmm.  Long road ahead. :)