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Re: Favorite color
codeman38, on host 209.172.224.34
Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 09:17:54
Re: Favorite color posted by Don the Monkeyman on Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 08:43:38:
> > > -- codeman"10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD
> > ";:GOTO 10"38
> >
> > I'm no programmer, but that looks like
> > something I would have written in my
> > Commodore 64 computer class in eighth
> > grade.
> >
> > Gri"_RUN_ Magazine, anyone?"shny
>
> If I remember correctly, you needed a line
> number for every line on the C64, so it would
> be
>
> 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
> 20 GOTO 10
Nope...just checked using a C64 emulator, and indeed you can use colons as shorthand to put multiple statements on one line. So the statement I wrote is basically equivalent to your two-line program.
-- codeman"spent way too much time playing with BASIC as a kid"38
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