04-11-18 03:33 Shaun Bebbington wrote to All about Something strange going o   
   Howdy! Shaun,   
      
    SB> @MSGID: <5ACE2329.2490.cbm@capitolcityonline.net>   
    SB> Hi,   
      
    SB> I found something odd today in the powerful CBM BASIC v2.0.   
      
    SB> Having worked with Sinclair BASIC quite a lot recently, I use GOTO X   
    SB> where X is a valid line number (i.e., LET X = 100). But I know that's   
    SB> not possible with Microsoft BASIC. Of course there is the ON X GO TO   
    SB> 100,200 ...   
      
    SB> So I thought "I know, I'll try and use a function, could CBM BASIC use   
    SB> this as a look up table". The following, I expected to go to the value   
    SB> in the function A() which returns 10, but...   
      
    SB> 0 DEF FN A(X) = 10   
    SB> 1 PRINT FN A(0)   
    SB> 2 GO TO FN A(0)   
    SB> 3 PRINT "END GRACEFULLY"   
    SB> 4 END   
    SB> 10 PRINT "STOP"   
    SB> 11 STOP   
      
    SB> Try it for yourself. What's going on here?   
      
    SB> Thanks in advance.   
      
   X isn't given a VALUE yet.   I "think" (TM).   
      
      
      
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