Date   : Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:34:23 -0000
From   : "Fewell, Steve" <Steve.Fewell@...>
Subject: Basic variable names and £?

After doing through some of the BASIC4 ROM disassembly (some of my
results
can be seen on www.8bs.com), I've discovered that the £ symbol can be
used
in variable names. However, I don't recall any manuals/user guides
mentioning this - does anyone know of any.

All the manuals I remember say that you can use alphabetic characters,
numbers and the underline character [but not £].

I guess it was easier for BASIC to allow this rather than disallow it,
seeing that the £ character ASCII 96) occurs between the underscore
"_" and
"a" characters. Or, could this be a bug in the BBC BASIC?

Regards,
Steve.