Useful Programming Trick .. But 40 years late!

[Garth Wilson]

Something along the lines of macros in assembly language, you could go further and write with the desired structures, in text, with a text editor, then have a program that replaces the structure commands with what you're proposing above, before TRANSFORMing to BASIC. I did something similar it order to get rid of the line numbers (the program that did the TRANSFORMing added them) and to have white space for readability, but did not think of taking it as far as forming such structures. I showed Geir an example of it when we met in L.A. a couple of years ago. The Paris users' group did have a module for the 71 that added multi-line IF...THEN...ELSE...ENDIF, CASE, and maybe some others, but I never got it.