SATURN BASIC for HP-48G/G+/GX, HP-49G and HP-49G+/50G

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(05-05-2015 01:31 PM)Claudio L. Wrote:  Cool, reminds me also of BASIC in the ZX81 and Spectrum, where ASCII characters above 127 were the actual BASIC commands. It's extremely compact and also speed-efficient. Good design decision.

Claudio.

Yes, statement tokens have bit 7 set but function tokens, operators and variables haven't, so the interpreter can easily distinguish between the beginning of an statement and the expression(s) as part of the statement. This speeds up many things a lot. And that's why a colon separator isn't needed in most cases (but the programmer is responsible to put it where needed). I really like those features and missed them until now ...