Re: basic BASIC question

On 2/3/2025 8:18 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 19:32:35 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 2/3/2025 5:05 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Trouble is, every other notation for string literals requires some kind
of escape system for representing characters that might interfere with
the syntax notation itself.

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True. But that does not seem to be a problem.

 I know. Normal people see it as an absolute nightmare to try to calculate
a count prefix. But surely any self-respecting editor makes that easy,
e.g.
      44HThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
 It only took me a few seconds in Emacs, even without the benefit of a
custom command to make it faster.

Note that the above seems to be a hollerith edit descriptor (deleted in
Fortran 95 standard) and not a hollerith constant (deleted in
Fortran 77 standard). Counting is not a problem in hollerith constants,
but changing the string can be.
Arne