Re: BBC and DEFINT etc [Was: Using GOTO]

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> wrote:
>
> Looking back at my records the BBC Specification stated 'The general
> syntax of all commands should be identical to Microsoft Basic 5.0',
> but in the list of commands and statements that followed DEFINT etc.
> were *not* included.  There was a caveat which said 'If there is any
> conflict between what is said below and the Microsoft specification
> then the latter should be used' but I suspect that was conveniently
> ignored.
>
> Everything was on a very tight time schedule and inevitably BBC BASIC
> had to be based on Acorn's older Atom Basic and on the Proton Basic
> they had started to develop.  Whilst the BBC was able to insist on a
> large number of changes and extra features to meet its requirements,
> including improved compatibility with Microsoft BASIC, there had to be
> some compromise and its original high aim of almost complete
> compatibility was never met.
>
> The rest is history.  The BBC Micro was far more successful than even
> the most optimistic predictions and BBC BASIC became, in the UK at
> least, far better known and more widely used than any Microsoft
> Basic.  By that stage, and since, nobody has really cared much about
> compatibility.

Who makes the decisions about BB4W today? Could you, for example,
decide to implement the DEFxxx feature, or other constructs, yourself?
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