Date   : Wed, 01 Dec 1999 14:22:01 +0000
From   : James Gibbon <jg@...>
Subject: Re: Basic compiler 

Faraz Choudhry wrote:
> > Ah, bollocks. I just re-read the original mail and
> realised I'd read "file"
> > instead of "memory". No, there are no direct
> operators in early BASICs for
> > read/write of real variables to memory. Sorry.
> 
> OK, direction and indirection operators, they're the ?
> and ! pokers right?  As far as I know BASIC II has
> them functions.  I've had no problem using them on my
> Model B.  Please explain "direct operators".....
> 

It's been a loooooong time since I played with BBC BASIC but
if I remember correctly, ?n= would write a byte, !n= would 
write 2 bytes (a signed integer?) where n is the address.  So
if I'm right there's no provision to write reals directly to 
memory, at least in the versions I was familiar with.

James