Re: running .system files from BASIC

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <LfqdnZdcsZ_xJO3dRVn-iQ@comcast.com>,
 "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net> wrote:

> You need the Semi-Colon after D$ otherwise
> it'll think D$"-xxxxxxxx.SYSTEM" is all one
> variable.

I'm not going to swear to it, but I think that's incorrect. Seems to me 
I remember writing code either way, since Applesoft didn't care whether 
the semicolon was there or not.

There were a couple special cases that I can't recall right now (mostly 
involving unexpected ways the parser saw things) that made it a really 
good idea to use the semicolon between items in a print list, but aside 
from the "gotcha" cases, I'm pretty sure it's optional.

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