Re: How to detect EOFs in SEQ-files using M/C?

[Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>]

On 9 Sep 2002, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
|>| > Is pi intercepted also?
|>|
|>|PI isn't a variable. It is a keyword, albeit an unusual one, complete
|>|with its own token. I believe it acts as a function with a fixed value.
|>
|>Hmmmm.  How is pi represented on the Apple II?  There has to be a story
|>in here somewhere.  Are not most basic languages for the Apple II soft-
|>loaded?  How do they handle pi?  Surely they don't use a whole token
|>just for pi?
|
|In Applesoft BASIC, pi is just a variable--no special status.  If you
|want it to have some value, you must assign it.

Well, yes, and that makes perfect sense, too.  But how on earth (or
why on earth) did Commodore decide to make a token for it?!