Date   : Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:51:37 +0000 (GMT)
From   : debounce@... (Greg Cook)
Subject: Basic6809 1.00

On Sat, 7/11/09, Rick Murray <rick@...> wrote:

> Rick Murray wrote:
> 
> > Whatever. BeebASM. OMG! Wow!
> 
> Interesting choice to make SAVE's end address to be the one
> AFTER the 
> byte to end with; thus retaining 'compatibility' with what
> was probably 
> a bug in the MOS [I believe RISC OS's *Save end is the
> actual end].

I prefer the existing way; Edgar Dijkstra hand-wrote a charming paper in
1982 championing semi-inclusive ranges in this style, but Acorn had been
doing it this way since the System 1.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

Greg Cook
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